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Botched execution backstory and other headlines

Morning headlines: the backstory of yesterday's botched execution in OK, a new GOP focus on electing judges, FL Gov seeks Obamacare complaints but finds praise.
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Gov. Rick Scott talks to reporters at the Dr. Amando Badia Senior Center in Miami, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. During Scott's visit to the center he held a...

These are the drugs used in yesterday's botched execution in Oklahoma. (AP)

A minute-by-minute account of the botched execution. (Tulsa World)

Some of the legal backstory, including a call by OK Republicans to impeach state Supreme Court justices. (Washington Post)

Republican group will focus its election efforts on judicial races. (Washington Post)

Looking for complaints, FL Gov. Rick Scott instead finds praise for Obamacare. (Sun Sentinel)

Hawaii lawmakers vote to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 by 2018. (Reuters)

Meanwhile, the federal minimum wage hike is set to die on the Senate floor today. (The Hill)

Iraq holds its first parliamentary elections since the U.S. withdrawal today. (AP)

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