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A former nurse who asked for the death penalty for drugging and suffocating her two children was executed by injection Tuesday in Arkansas first execution of a woman in more than 150 years. Christina Marie Riggs, 28, was the fifth woman executed in the United States since the Supreme Court lifted a ban on capital punishment in 1976. She had maintained throughout that she wanted to die and her last words reflected her grief. There is no way no words can express how sorry I am for taking the lives of my babies, she said. Now I can be with my babies, as I always intended. She had withdrawn all appeals and c
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