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AP analysis: Federal executions likely a COVID superspreader

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WASHINGTON – As the Trump administration was nearing the end of an unprecedented string of executions, 70% of death row inmates were sick with COVID-19.

Guards were ill. Traveling prisons staff on the execution team had the virus. So did media witnesses, who may have unknowingly infected others when they returned home because they were never told about the spreading cases.

Records obtained by The Associated Press show employees at the Indiana prison complex where the 13 executions were carried out over six months had contact with inmates and other people infected with coronavirus, but were able to refuse testing and declined to participate in contact tracing efforts and were still permitted to return to their work assignments.

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