Law_Crime

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Overall, the government received a record 789,000 requests last fiscal year but processed only about 760,000, according to the Department of Justice. (Associated Press/File)

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FILE - In this June 18, 2010, file photo, the firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, is shown. Used mostly in the 19th and 20th centuries, it was also used in 1977 in Utah to execute Gary Gilmore, the first inmate put to death after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume, and two other Utah inmates. Some experts consider it the quickest and least painful method. (AP Photo/Trent Nelson, Pool, File)

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FILE-This undated file photo provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections shows Antione Lee. Lee, a transgender prison inmate in Ohio wants a federal judge to order the state to allow her hormone treatments to continue permanently. The inmate says she suffered a medical setback including facial hair growth and depression when the treatments stopped. (AP Photo/Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, File)