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Bucking the trend of states scrapping their death penalties, a handful of legislatures are trying to amend their capital-punishment systems to speed up the process and help ensure that more executions take place. 

Florida's Republican Gov. Rick Scott is currently considering a bill the Legislature passed in April that would mandate that the state execute a prisoner within 180 days after the governor signs a death warrant. The 'Timely Justice Act' would create tighter time frames for judges considering death-penalty appeals, and make some types of post-conviction motions harder to bring, including whether a defendant should get a new trial as a result of lawyer incompetence.

In North Carolina, legislators are expected to pass a bill that would overturn a 2009 law allowing death-row inmates to challenge sentences on grounds that they were racially biased. Legislators in other states are pushing bills that fix problems with their lethal-injection procedures, which have led to a host of legal challenges, and in some cases years-long moratoriums on executions. 

The efforts to carry out more executions run counter to a growing tide of disenchantment with the death penalty in parts of the country, often because of a widespread belief the death penalty as practiced is costly and inefficient.

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