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Execution date set for DSS killer
By MIKE GELLATLY
Staff Writer
Convicted murderer David Mark Hill will be put to death June 6.
The Department of corrections announced this afternoon that the execution date had been set for the man who had successfully asked the Supreme Court to expedite his sentence.
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