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Execution of Native American man stirs emotion within tribe

As a Navajo man sits on federal death row awaiting his upcoming execution date, his tribe is asking officials to spare his life

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Late on a fall evening in 2001, Alyce Slim and her granddaughter stopped at a gas station on the Navajo Nation after searching for a traditional healer for leg ailments.

There, in an area where hitchhiking is common, Slim agreed to give two males a ride. They got into her pewter-colored pickup truck and when she stopped later to let them out, they didn't budge.

Instead, Lezmond Mitchell and Johnny Orsinger stabbed Slim 33 times and placed her lifeless body next to the 9-year-old in the back seat as they drove to an abandoned sheep camp. They told Tiffany Lee to prepare to die and slit her throat. She was still breathing, so they dropped rocks on her head, killing her, too.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/execution-native-american-man-stirs-emotion-tribe-72551612

 

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