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Nov 14, 2007 1:11 pm US/Eastern

Convicted Child Killer's Execution Halted

Mark Schwab Was Scheduled To Die By Lethal Injection On Thursday

  A federal court has granted a stay halting the execution of Mark Dean Schwab.

He was scheduled to die by lethal injection on Thursday at 6:00 p.m. for the 1991 kidnapping, rape and murder of 11-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez.

This was going to be the first Florida execution since the botched injection of Angel Diaz last December. It took twice as long as normal for him to die because the guards pushed the needles through his veins.

The U.S. District Court's delay of Schwab's execution was widely expected. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the appeals of two Kentucky inmates challenging the toxic three-drug combination administered there.

Florida uses the same drugs and Schwab's appeal claims the chemicals violate the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

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