WASHINGTON - The first federal execution in 17 years is set to go ahead on Monday after a US appeals court overturned a lower court injunction, saying a lawsuit by the victims' family that had put the execution on hold had no legal standing.
His execution had been blocked on Friday by a federal judge after some of the victims' relatives sued, saying they feared that attending could expose them to Covid-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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