Fleischer, a die-hard Yankee supporter who donned a team cap to announce Bush would go to the game, dodged the delicate issue of which team the president would support.

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Florida's governor, Jeb Bush, ordered a halt to executions after a convicted killer took 34 minutes to die and a judge in California ruled that the state's method of administering the injections was cruel and therefore unconstitutional.

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