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A Missouri inmate who is eight days away from being put to death is now pleading his prior military service and mental health struggles caused by the death of his police officer father should exempt him from execution. David Hosier is set to die for the 2009 murders of Angela and Rodney Gilpin on June 11. Hosier, 64, had a romantic relationship with Angela before she went back to her husband, Rodney. Prosecutors couldn’t put him at the apartment crime scene in Jefferson City, Missouri, but claimed they had a mountain of evidence including a protective order that Angela had filed against him al…

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