Execution Delayed for Black Drug-Runner Who Killed White Cop with a Pipe Bomb

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A South Florida drug trafficker convicted of killing a state trooper with a pipe bomb is once again scheduled to die.

Gov. Rick Scott on Friday set Paul Augustus Howell's new execution date for Feb. 26, according to a letter Scott sent to the warden of Florida State Prison.

Scott signed a death warrant for Howell last January, but the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit  . . . Read more