Social Issues

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Anti-death penalty supporter Randy Gardner, right, embraces Abraham Bonowitz, left, after they read on his phone the 11:45 p.m., decision to halt the execution in their taped off "protest corral" outside the Varner Unit late Monday, April 17, 2017 near Varner, Ark. (Stephen B. Thornton /The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)

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Anti-death penalty supporters Abraham Bonowitz, left, and Randy Gardner wait near their taped off "protest corral" outside the Varner Unit late Monday, April 17, 2017 near Varner, Ark. (Stephen B. Thornton /The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)

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FILE - In this Feb. 8, 2017 file photo, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. She wasn't in her home state, but Warren couldn't have asked for a friendlier audience to launch her book tour. The Massachusetts Democrat entered and left to warm ovations Tuesday night, April 18, 2017, at the Barnes & Noble in Manhattan's Union Square, where she spoke about "This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Anti-death penalty supporters Abraham Bonowitz, left, and Randy Gardner wait near their taped off "protest corral" outside the Varner Unit late Monday, April 17, 2017 near Varner, Ark. (Stephen B. Thornton /The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)

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Associated Press An empty U.S. House chamber stands waiting for its occupants.

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Arkansas governor spokesman J.R. Davis speaks after the news that the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the scheduled Monday, April 17, 2017, execution of Don Davis, scuttling efforts to resume capital punishment after nearly 12 years, in Varner, Ark. (AP Photo/John L. Mone)

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This undated Clark County Detention Center photo shows Richard Loughry, 46, of Las Vegas. Authorities say they veteran Las Vegas fire captain is facing lewdness with a child, statutory sexual seduction and child prostitution charges after he was arrested in a child sex trafficking investigation. (Clark County Detention Center via AP)

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Hunger, malnutrition and rampant crime have brought many Venezuelans to the breaking point, and they blame socialist President Nicolas Maduro. (Associated Press/File)

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FBI Director James Comey, left, is greeted by Peter T. Edge, the Executive Associate Director for Homeland Security Investigations at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, before a meeting of the Attorney General's Organized Crime Council and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Executive Committee to discuss implementation of the President's Executive Order 13773, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions listens to reporter's question before a meeting of the Attorney General's Organized Crime Council and Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) Executive Committee to discuss implementation of the President's Executive Order 13773, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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The family of slain Lt. Steven Floyd Sr. stand nearby as their attorney announces the filing of a federal lawsuit against former governors Jack Markell, Ruth Ann Minner and others seeking compensatory and punitive damages, Tuesday, April 18, 2017 in Wilmington, Del. The family of a guard who was killed and five other officers who survived a prison riot sued the state of Delaware in federal court on Tuesday, blaming the deadly uprising on security and staffing problems that officials had ignored for years. (Suchat Pederson/The Wilmington News-Journal via AP)

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The widow of slain Lt. Steven Floyd Sr. wipes the tears from her eyes as her attorney announces the filing of a federal lawsuit against former governors Jack Markell, Ruth Ann Minner and others seeking compensatory and punitive damages after a prison riot at the Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Del. (Suchat Pederson/The Wilmington News-Journal via AP)

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Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez speaks at a protest against President Donald Trump's new travel ban order in Lafayette Square outside the White House, in Washington, in this Monday, March 6, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) ** FILE **

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Supporters of the 'no' vote, chant slogans during a protest against the referendum outcome, on the Aegean Sea city of Izmir, Turkey, Tuesday, April 18, 2017. Turkey's main opposition party has filed a formal request seeking Sunday's referendum to be annulled because of voting irregularities. (AP Photo/Emre Tazegul)

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Members of the public await their turn to speak to the House Appropriations Committee, asking lawmakers to steer more money to services for people with developmental disabilities, on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

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Sandee Winchell, executive director of the Louisiana Developmental Disabilities Council, speaks to members of the public who were asking the House Appropriations Committee to steer more money to services for people with disabilities, on Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La. (AP Photo/Melinda Deslatte)

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This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows inmate Randolph Greer. Greer, who spent nearly two decades on Texas death row has accepted four consecutive life sentences without parole in a plea agreement after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered he receive a new sentencing trial. Greer was 19 in 1992 when he was convicted of capital murder and condemned for the fatal shooting of a Houston-area gun shop owner during a robbery. (Texas Department of Criminal Justice via AP)