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Wesley Ira Purkey, pictured here in 2000, was scheduled to die on July 15, 2000, in Terre Haute, Ind. The federal inmate was convicted of kidnapping and killing a 16-year-old girl. (Kansas Department of Corrections image via Courthouse News)

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