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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - As executions approach, loved ones of the condemned inmate and the victim's family anxiously wait and wonder whether a judge or governor will intervene before the appointed hour.
But for Elijah Page, the drama likely will play out in his own heart and mind.
After a childhood of abuse and bouncing between foster homes, the 24-year-old from Athens, Texas, is where he wants to be: days away from dying by injection for his role in the hours-long torture slaying of Chester Allan Poage, 19, of Spearfish.
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