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This Feb. 8, 2012 photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Alyssa Bustamante. Bustamante was sentenced last week to life in prison for the October 2009 slaying of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten in St. Martins, a small town just west of Jefferson City, Mo.

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Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps listens to a question during a briefing for reporters prior to the execution of death row inmate Edwin Hart Turner during a Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 news conference at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss. A...

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Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps briefed reporters on the witnesses for the execution of death row inmate Edwin Hart Turner during a Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 news conference at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss. A federal appeals court...

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Suzanne Singletary, communications director for the Mississippi Department of Corrections, outlines the final meal requested by death row inmate Edwin Hart Turner during a Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012 news conference at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss. A federal appeals...

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This undated photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows inmate Johnny Plummer. Plummer, now 35, was 15 when he was arrested for two murders. He�s among the dozens of current inmates � most of them black � who claim they were beaten or tortured by Chicago police until...

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Edwin Hart Turner in pictured in this undated photograph released by the Mississippi Department of Corrections on February 9, 2012. Turner, who was convicted of murdering two people during convenience store robberies was executed on Wednesday by lethal injection, becoming the first...

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State Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps, right, Dillworth Ricks, director of victim services, second from right, and Adam Lee, with the state Department of Corrections, left, listen as Roy Curry, the brother of Everett Curry, one of two men killed by death row inmate Edwin Hart Turner,...

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This undated photo provided by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision shows John Price, 49. Price was indicted on a charge of murder in the 1988 killing of Joyce Williams. Williams, who was 15-months pregnant at the time and was the mother of nine...

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This August 1993 photo from the Illinois Department of Corrections via the Southern Illinoisan shows Grover Thompson in the Menard Correctional Center in Dwight, Ill. Relatives, investigators and advocates of Thompson, who died in prison in 1996 in a southern Illinois stabbing 30 years...

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FILE - This April 11, 2008 file photo provided by the Mississippi Department of Corrections shows condemned inmate Edwin Hart Turner who is scheduled for execution Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012, after a federal appeals court panel vacated an order blocking an execution in Mississippi.

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Nicholas Cody Tate is pictured in this handout photo from the Georgia Department of Corrections website. Tate who terrorized and murdered a woman and her 3-year-old daughter, after molesting the toddler, during a home invasion in 2001 is scheduled to be executed in Georgia January 31,...

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Marshall Fisher, executive director of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, left, and Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps, center, were among the state agency heads who attended Gov. Phil Bryant's state fiscal budget presentation at the Capitol in Jackson,...

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Georgia Department of Corrections Tack Squad members, C.Ware, left, and P. Crowder, right, stand at the playground at River Ridge apartment complex on River Ridge Drive in Canton, Ga. Monday, Dec. 5, 2011 where 7-year old Jorelys Rivera disappeared from Friday night. A team of state...

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Idaho Department of Corrections Director Brent Reinke, left, and Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden answer questions at a news conference following the execution of Paul Ezra Rhoades at Idaho's Maximum Security Institution in Boise, Idaho on Friday morning Nov. 18, 2011.

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This undated photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows inmate Terrill Swift. On Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, a Cook County judge in Chicago is expected to decide whether new DNA evidence is enough to throw out the convictions of Swift and three other men in a...

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In this undated photo provided by the Oregon Department of Corrections, inmate Michael Gladney is shown. State corrections spokeswoman Jeanine Hohn said investigators believe someone created Facebook pages for Gladney, and he has not been disciplined.

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In this undated photo provided by the California Department of Corrections, Fredrick Garner is shown. Karen Carrisosa was worried when officials found Facebook postings from him. Garner is serving a 22-year involuntary manslaughter sentence for killing her husband, Larry Carrisosa, 11...

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This Oct. 20, 2008, photo provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections in Lansing, Mich. , shows Saulo Montalvo, who is serving life without parole for first-degree murder. Now 31, Montalvo was 16 when he was the getaway driver in a Grand Rapids convenience store robbery in which...

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This April 5, 2011, photo provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections in Lansing, Mich. , shows Angela McConnell, who is serving life without parole for first-degree murder. Now 28, McConnell was 17 when she participated in the killing of three people in Kalamazoo County in 2000.

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This photo provided Oct. 27, 2011, by the Minnesota Department of Corrections shows Timothy Eling. Eling was notified this week that after 29 years, his life sentence is complete. Eling killed Officer Richard Walton during a 1982 gun battle inside a hospital pharmacy in St. Paul. Walton...

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This photo provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Alabama death row inmate Christopher Johnson, who has been executed for killing his infant son in February 2005, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 at Holman Prison in Atmore, Ala.

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In this undated photo provided by the Georgia Department of Corrections, convicted murderer Marcus Ray Johnson is shown. Johnson is scheduled to be executed Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, for the 1994 murder of Angela Sizemore outside an Albany, Ga. , night club.

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The New Jersey Department of Corrections booking photograph taken on February 15, 1963 shows George Wright who was arrested by the Portuguese Judiciary Police on Monday after the FBI, the U.S. Marshalls Service and New Jersey authorities tracked him down to a town outside Lisbon. ...

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This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Manuel Valle, 61, convicted of killing Coral Gables police officer Louis Pena 33 years ago is set to finally serve his death sentence. Valle is scheduled to be executed at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, more...

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A riot squad with the Georgia Department of Corrections deploys against demonstrators calling on Georgia state officials to halt the scheduled execution of convicted cop killer Troy Davis at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Georgia, on Wednesday, September...