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Mark Asay's Execution Puts An End To Florida's Hiatus In Applying Capital Punishment

WLRN Public Media | By Wilson Sayre

Published August 24, 2017 at 7:28 PM EDT

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Wilson Sayre was born and bred in Raleigh, N.C., home of the only real barbecue in the country (we're talking East here). She graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, where she studied Philosophy.

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