The Nation - News from Nov. 26, 1985
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A 23-year-old man escaped the Texas death chamber when the U.S. Supreme Court issued an indefinite stay hours before he was to receive a lethal injection in Huntsville. Jay Kelly Pinkerton was scheduled to die early today for the murders of two Amarillo women. The court will consider whether jurors opposed to the death penalty can be excluded from capital cases.
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