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Missouri death row prisoner executed in state’s second lethal injection this year

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Missouri executed a man on death row on Tuesday night, the state’s second lethal injection carried out this year. David Hosier, 69, was pronounced dead at 6.11pm following a single-dose injection of the sedative pentobarbital at the state prison in Bonne Terre, said Missouri corrections department spokesperson Karen Pojmann via text message. Hosier has maintained […]

Oldest ever US organ donor believed to be 98-year-old man

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Orville Allen lived a lifetime of service, and when he died at age 98 he had one last thing to give: his liver. Allen, a veteran of both second world war and the Korean war and a longtime educator in rural south-eastern Missouri, is the oldest American to ever donate an organ, transplant organizations said. […]