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Iowa woman with federal death sentence fights case
By taragana.com
Published: 10/20/2009

DES MOINES, Iowa — The first woman to receive a federal death sentence since the Supreme Court reinstated the punishment in 1976 is challenging her conviction in a quadruple Iowa murder.

Attorneys for Angela Johnson filed a petition in U.S. District Court that said she was incompetent during her 2005 trial, in part due to mental disorders, and had ineffective lawyers.

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