Government Executes Wesley Ira Purkey, Second Federal Death Row Prisoner in a Week
Wesley Ira Purkey was killed by lethal injection at the penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., for killing a teenage girl more than two decades ago.
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Government Executes Wesley Ira Purkey, Second Federal Death Row Prisoner in a Week
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