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Security was beefed up Wednesday at the Georgia prison where death-row inmate Troy Davis was scheduled to be executed Wednesday night. Davis, who has always maintained his innocence, has been on death row since 1991. The crowd outside the prison swelled to more than 500 as night fell. (Associated Press)

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Anti-death penalty protesters Wednesday chant "Let Troy Go" for Davis in Jackson, Ga. Davis, 42, was convicted in the 1989 killing of an off-duty police officer in Savannah. His last-minute offer to take a polygraph test was rejected. (Associated Press)

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A sign at Josh Fattal's former high school in Wyncote, Pa., announces his and fellow American Shane Bauer's release from a Tehran prison on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, after more than two years in custody. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Students at Josh Fattal's former high school sign a banner on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, in Wyncote, Pa. Fellow American Shane Bauer and Mr. Fattal, jailed in Iran for two years on charges of spying, were released from a Tehran prison on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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Nancy Campeau, an employee of Sprouts Hometown Market & Gifts in Pine City, Minn., adjusts a display after adding a sign in support of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. Store owner C.J. Gustafson watched the news of the Americans' release from an Iranian prison all morning with candles lit. Mr. Bauer's mother, Cindy Hickey, lives in Pine City. (AP Photo/The Minneapolis Star Tribune, Courtney Perry)

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Syracuse (in white) and Maryland will present an enticing matchup when the Orange's lacrosse program officially becomes part of the ACC. (Associated Press)

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Interior Secretary Ken Salazar gestures during an interview with the Associated Press on Sept. 21, 2011, in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Shelley Serdahely, of Roswell, Ga., joins hundreds of protesters on Sept. 20, 2011, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta against the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, who was convicted of murdering an off-duty Savannah police officer in 1989. (Associated Press/Atlanta Journal & Constitution)

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** FILE ** Lawrence Russell Brewer listens to the guilty verdict in his capital murder trial at the Brazos County Courthouse in Bryan, Texas, in September 1999. (AP Photo/Butch Ireland, Pool)

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Saul Solis Solis, right, and Mario Alberto Gordillo, alleged members of Mexico's Knights Templar drug cartel, are escorted by soldiers upon their presentation to the media in Mexico City, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. Solis Solis, a former police chief and one-time congressional candidate, and Gordillo were captured Monday in the cartel's home state of Michoacan, Mexico. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

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associated press With his strong performances down the stretch, Nationals starter Tommy Milone continues to make a case for being included in Washington's much-talked-about 2012 rotation.

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associated press With his strong performances down the stretch, Nationals starter Tommy Milone continues to make a case for being included in Washington's much-talked-about 2012 rotation.

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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II wants to deputize members of the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit so they can serve subpoenas and carry a weapon. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Georgia's pardons board Tuesday rejected clemency for cop killer Troy Davis, convicted of shooting Officer Mark MacPhail in 1989. He is scheduled to die by injection Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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A young Indian girl who was injured in a building collapse that followed a magnitude-6.9 earthquake is treated at a hospital in Siliguri, India, on Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

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An FBI agent carries out evidence from Solyndra headquarters in Fremont, Calif., on Sept. 8 in a probe of its collapse after receiving $535 million in federal loans. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Jose Padilla is escorted to a waiting police vehicle by federal marshals in 2003. Four years later, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison on terrorism-related charges. On Monday, an appeals court ordered a new sentencing, calling the original term too lenient.

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Supporters of death-row inmate Troy Davis gather outside the Atlanta building Monday where the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles is holding a hearing on whether to change his death sentence for the 1989 slaying of a Savannah, Ga., police officer. (Associated Press)

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Lakeland police and Polk County sheriff's deputies investigate a shooting in Lakeland, Fla. on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011. A gunman killed his wife at their Florida home and then burst through the front door of a nearby church on Sunday, wounding a pastor and associate pastor before parishioners tackled him, authorities and relatives said. (AP Photo/The Lakeland Ledger, Pierre DuCharme)