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    "excerpt": "The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 people in 2009. The announcement came days after a botched lethal injection in Tennessee.",
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    "title": "Trump approved the military's 1st firing squad execution since WWII. Why now?",
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