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Clinton halts federal execution for six months
President Clinton postponed the first federal execution in 37 years delaying Juan Raul Garza's death sentence until June 2001 to let the Justice Department study racial and geographic disparities in capital punishment. Garza, a Brownsville Texas marijuana-ring boss convicted of three murders, welcomed the stay.
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