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Supreme Court issues stay of execution for Texas man convicted in 1998 murder

The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for a Texas man 20 minutes before he was scheduled to face a lethal injection Tuesday evening. The inmate has long maintained DNA testing would help prove he wasn't responsible for the fatal stabbing of an 85-year-old woman during a home robbery decades ago.
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