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Justice Department is set to execute Navajo prisoner Wednesday

(Terry Tang | AP) Members of Death Penalty Alternatives for Arizona demonstrate against the scheduled execution of the only Native American on federal death row, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, outside the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse in Phoenix. Lezmond Mitchell, who was tried at that courthouse, is set to die Wednesday for the 2001 slayings of a 9-year-old and her grandmother nearly two decades ago on the Navajo Nation, though many Navajos are hoping for last-minute intervention by President Donald Trump to halt the execution.