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All five remain free on bail, at least until U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain sentences them in late July.

Meanwhile, in Texas two days after the election, Mario Swain became the 13th person executed in the state this year.

After two hearings in New York last week that were at times comic, Judge Swain fashioned a compromise.

He turned to the foot-swain who stood at his side: “ Fetch hither five horse-whips,” King Valdemar cried.