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At 6pm Texas was set to execute Ray Jasper, convicted of murdering the owner of a recording studio.

Rodelis pharmaceuticals was set to execute large price increases for another orphan drug, cycloserine, until it was derailed by the outcry surrounding Daraprim.

The state of Alabama was set to execute 74-year-old Thomas Douglas Arthur Thursday night at Holman Correctional Facility, but U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a temporary stay of execution.

They clearly suspected Paul and I were set to execute some act of puerile sabotage, and how right they were.

After extraditing Alfredo Prieto from California because the state was taking too long to kill him, Virginia is set to execute the serial killer using drugs from Texas.

Barring an intervention by the Supreme Court, the state is set to execute a death row inmate Charles Warner by lethal injection on Thursday using a two-drug cocktail that contains midazolam, the same drug that left another Oklahoma inmate, Clayton Lockett, writhing on a gurney for 43 minutes before dying of a massive heart attack last year.

Gov. Eric Greitens (R-MO) stayed the execution of Marcellus Williams just four hours before he was set to be executed and appointed a board of inquiry to look at new evidence in the case.

Mr. Oken, 42, was set to be executed this week for killing three women in 1987.

Mr. Johnson, who was set to be executed at 6 p.m., was sentenced to die for the Sept. 10, 1995, shooting death of Jeff Wetterman, 27, in a convenience store robbery in the central Texas town of Lorena.

Dunlap, 40, was set to be executed by lethal injection last year before Hickenlooper intervened, granting the convicted quadruple murderer an open-ended "temporary reprieve".

For example, another Oklahoma man was set to be executed right after Clayton Lockett but Charles Warner's date with death has been postponed pending an investigation into the state's practices.