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Member of Montana extremist group dies in prison
Associated PressApril 21, 2021News
AP Photo/Michael S. Green, FileIn this June 13, 1996, file photo, members of the Freemen group surrender to FBI agents at the negotiation site on the Freeman compound outside Jordan, Mont. A member of the anti-government Montana Freemen who took part in the extremist group s 81-day armed standoff with FBI agents has died in prison. Federal officials say Russell Dean Landers, 69, died Saturday, April 10, 2021, while in custody at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terre Haute, Ind.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) A member of the anti-government Montana Freemen who took part in the extremist group’s 81-day armed standoff with FBI agents 25 years ago has died in prison.
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The sole federal execution chamber in the United States is in a place called Terre Haute the high ground in far western Indiana, named for a swath of land that rises above the nearby Wabash River. The surrounding country is in fact flat and wide, precipitously exposed to the sky.
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New coronavirus cases increased in 3.5% in Michigan in the latest week ending Sunday as the state added 53,296 cases. The previous week had 51,512 new cases of the virus that causes COVID-19.
Michigan ranked first among the states where coronavirus was spreading the fastest on a per-person basis, a USA TODAY Network analysis of Johns Hopkins University data shows. In the latest week the United States added 472,154 reported cases of coronavirus, a decrease of 3.4% from the week before. Across the country, 21 states had more cases in the latest week than they did in the week before.