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Scholastic announced today that it is publishing Suzanne Collins’ new Hunger Games prequel novel, currently untitled, which will hit shelves on May 19, 2020. The novel will be set in the world of Panem 64 years before the events of the original Hunger Games trilogy on the morning of the reaping of the 10th Hunger Games — well before the lifetime of the story’s protagonists Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence on-screen. “As the proud home of the Hunger Games movies, we can hardly wait for Suzanne’s next book to be published. We’ve been communicating with her during the writing...

NASHVILLE - The state Supreme Court on Friday set a June 28 execution date for inmate Sedley Alley, who came within hours of being put to death last month before getting a short reprieve to pursue DNA testing on evidence in his case. It was the second setback for the condemned killer this week. On Tuesday, a judge refused to release evidence from the 1985 rape and murder of Suzanne M. Collins so Alley's defense team could pay for DNA testing. Alley was scheduled to die by lethal injection May 17 until he got a 15-day reprieve to seek the...

NASHVILLE — Death row inmate Sedley Alley received a stay of execution Thursday from a federal judge. Alley was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1985 rape and murder of 19-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne M. Collins at the Millington Naval Air Station outside Memphis. Federal Judge Aleta Traugher issued the stay because for Alley, who is challenging the state’s lethal injection procedure. A ruling on whether the drugs used in lethal injection violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment is pending in the U.S. Supreme Court.