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FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2001 file photo, Gary Sampson is arraigned in district court in Brockton, Mass., in connection with the stabbing death of 19-year-old Jonathan Rizzo of Kingston, Mass. Sampson was later sentenced to death for killing three people during a crime spree that year. A court hearing is scheduled Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in the case of Sampson, who faces a second trial on whether he should receive the federal death penalty. (AP Photo/Greg Derr, Pool, File)
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FILE - In this May 6, 2013 file photo, Illinois Sen. Daniel Biss, D-Skokie speaks with a legislative staffer at the state Capitol in Springfield, Ill. A report to be released Tuesday, Jan 21, 2014, says Illinois $160 billion pension plan ultimately won’t make much of a dent in the state’s growing deficits. Biss, a pension reform negotiator and mathematician by trade, has long urged that reforms are just a drop in the bucket. He says we have to take steps on the tax side and other steps on the spending side besides pensions. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)
