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Texas has halted the scheduled execution of a former topless-club bouncer condemned for a 1989 double murder in suburban Dallas.

Prison officials concluded they couldn’t follow proper procedures in time after lengthy appeals had delayed the midnight Tuesday execution by lethal injection of Charles Hood.

Oklahoma on Tuesday executed its first Death Row inmate since August.

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