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Brady Henderson, left, of the ACLU and attorney David Slane, right, issues a statement on the Oklahoma Death Penalty from the Oklahoma State Capitol in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Lockett apparently died of a massive heart attack during his botched execution. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
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Sam Jennings with Oklahoma Coalition Against the Death Penalty holds a sign protesting the death penalty at the State Capitol in Oklahoma City, Tuesday April 29, 2014. Oklahoma prison officials halted the execution of an inmate after the delivery of a new three-drug combination on Tuesday failed to go as planned. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Steve Gooch)
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District of Columbia Republican Mayoral candidate, City Councilman David Catania answers questions during an interview with the Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Conventional wisdom dictates that Catania is an underdog in the race for mayor of Washington. He is white, a former Republican and openly gay in a city that has only elected African-American Democrats to its top local office. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
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District of Columbia Republican Mayoral candidate, City Councilman David Catania listens during an interview with the Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Conventional wisdom dictates that Catania is an underdog in the race for mayor of Washington. He is white, a former Republican and openly gay in a city that has only elected African-American Democrats to its top local office. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
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District of Columbia Republican Mayoral candidate, City Councilman David Catania ticks off points with his hands as he answers questions during an interview with the Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Conventional wisdom dictates that Catania is an underdog in the race for mayor of Washington. He is white, a former Republican and openly gay in a city that has only elected African-American Democrats to its top local office. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
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District of Columbia Republican Mayoral candidate, City Councilman David Catania poses for a portrait before an interview with the Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Conventional wisdom dictates that Catania is an underdog in the race for mayor of Washington. He is white, a former Republican and openly gay in a city that has only elected African-American Democrats to its top local office. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
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District of Columbia Republican Mayoral candidate, City Councilman David Catania poses for a portrait before an interview with the Associated Press in Washington, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Conventional wisdom dictates that Catania is an underdog in the race for mayor of Washington. He is white, a former Republican and openly gay in a city that has only elected African-American Democrats to its top local office. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)
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FILE -- In this May 1, 2013, file photo, protesters react as a police flash-bang grenade goes off during a May Day march that began as an anti-capitalism protest and turned into demonstrators clashing with police in downtown Seattle. May Day has turned violent recently in Seattle, where last year police arrested 18 people from a crowd that pelted them with rocks and bottles. A year earlier masked marchers dressed in black broke windows and doors on downtown banks and stores and tried to set a fire at a federal building. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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FILE- In this Jan. 13, 2014 file photo, Republican House Speaker Pro Tem Eric Turner, R-Cicero, presents a proposed amendment to the state's constitution to ban gay marriage during a hearing of the House elections committee at the Statehouse in Indianapolis. The House Ethics Committee meets to vote on whether Rep. Eric Turner violated state ethics laws when he lobbied in caucus to kill a nursing home ban that would have cost his family millions. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, file)
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Civil rights attorneys Jennifer Branch, center left, and Lisa Meeks, center right, talk about the lawsuit they filed in federal court in Cincinnati seeking to strike down Ohio's gay marriage ban, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. They are surrounded by some of the gay couples who are named as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, including, from left, Michelle Gibson, Mary Koehler, Karl Rece Jr., Gary Goodman, Ethan Fletcher and Ronny Beck. (AP Photo/Amanda Lee Myers)
