The execution of a Tennessee woman convicted of murder is imminent, one of her defense attorney's told AFP late Wednesday after a last-minute ruling from the US Supreme Court.
"It should start any minute if it hasn't already," Luke Ihnen told AFP after the court lifted a lower court block of the execution.
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