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Condemned Man Granted Temporary Reprieve
BY BILL LASCHER

Faced with execution for the 1984 murder of a Cleveland delicatessen owner during an attempted robbery, 49-year-old Jay D. Scott was scheduled to be the second person killed by the state of Ohio since the death penalty since 1963.
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