The Department of Public Health for the City of Philadelphia reported in its alert that a more potent drug has appeared in Maryland, Ohio, Florida, and Canada.
Richard Allen Davis’s attorneys argued the sentence should be tossed because of changes to state sentencing laws, plus the governor’s moratorium on executions.
Prosecutors say the five defendants took bogus devices to Apple stores and had them replaced with genuine items, then sold the real items for a large profit.
The public health alert comes as the total number of measles cases in the United States this year has more than doubled the annual total of 58 in 2023.