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December 10, 2014

Missouri executes inmate for 1998 hammer death

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri inmate was put to death early Wednesday for fatally beating a 63-year-old woman with a hammer in 1998, the state's record 10th lethal

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