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US executes first white man with lethal injection drug never used before for killing black man

(Image: Florida Department of Corrections/Doug Smith)

A double murderer took 11 minutes to be executed via a lethal injection drug never before used in the United States.

Mark Asay was killed at Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida, for the 1987 murders of Robert Lee Booker and Robert McDowell.

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