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While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some states are still buying it — and paying top dollar.

A team that tracked how well in vitro fertilization worked across the U.S. was abruptly cut Tuesday as part of the sweeping layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Louisiana put a condemned man to death using nitrogen gas in its first execution since 2010, making it only the second state to administer the controversial method.

A South Carolina man convicted in a 2002 double murder is set die Friday by firing squad, a rarely used execution method never before carried out by the state.

The overhaul of South Carolina’s death chamber was completed three years ago.

In a first, Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama, an ardent supporter of capital punishment, commuted the death sentence of an intellectually disabled man convicted of murder on Friday.

The claims come after a growing body of occupational studies stretching back decades have found an increased cancer risk among hairdressers.

As Linda McMahon is set to face a confirmation hearing Thursday to lead the Education Department, several former WWE employees, their family members and two current and former education officials are raising concerns about whether she is fit for the position overseeing more than 50 million students in about 98,000 public schools and 32,000 private schools around the United States.

Donald Trump plans to sign more than 50 executive orders Monday — and possibly more than 100 of them — on the first day of his second presidency, according to a person in his transition operation.

The sentences will be reclassified to life without the possibility of parole, the White House said. The move applies to 37 of the 40 federal inmates on death row.

An Alabama inmate convicted in a 1994 murder died Thursday in the state's third nitrogen hypoxia execution this year.