In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

For five years, Gov. Nikki Haley, South Carolina's first minority governor, dismissed calls to remove the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse lawn as a divisive issue far from her agenda. In her 2010 campaign, she said the two-thirds legislative approval required to move the flag from its 30-foot perch was too high a hurdle to allow for real debate. When her re-election opponent called last fall for it to be removed, she branded it a desperate stunt. None of that mattered, she said, after nine people were killed last month at a black church in Charleston, including its pastor, State Sen. Clementa Pinckney, in a crime she called 'pure hate.'South Carolina lawmakers plan to introduce a resolution Tuesday to debate removing the Confederate flag from the State House groundsGov. Nikki Haley said she was 'disgusted' to see photos of Emanuel AME Church shooting suspect Dylann Roof with flag'The flag didn't kill those families, but let's honor every person in South Carolina so no one drives by this Statehouse and feels pain,' she saidPublicly called on legislators to send the battle flag to a museumFlag has become a 'deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past' 
 Question:Since taking office, Haley said, a goal has been to change how people outside the state view _.
South Carolina

Don McLean is selling the original manuscript and lyrics to pop anthem American Pie, including a 'lost verse', which included a line about the music being 'reborn'. The singer-songwriter's 16-page collection is expected to fetch up to $1.5million (£1,006,303) at auction today, which offers tantalising new details about the famous anthem, originally released in 1971. In an interview published by Christie's auction house New York, where the manuscript is up for grabs today, McLean says American Pie is about 'heading in the wrong direction'. Scroll down for video Original song: Christie's curator Tom Lecky holds the 16-page notes and manuscript for singer Don McLean's American Pie at Christie's auction house in New YorkOriginal lyrics to U.S. pop anthem American Pie up for auction todayNotes on Don McLean's 60s hit expected to fetch up to $1.5millionThe 16-pages also includes deleted verse about music being 'reborn'. 
 Question:_'s New York is estimating that  the American Pie manuscript will sell for $1million to $1.5million.
Christie

Virginia is poised to execute a convicted serial killer who claims he's intellectually disabled using lethal injection drugs from Texas because the state's supply of another controversial drug will expire the day before the execution is supposed to take place. Unless Gov. Terry McAuliffe or the U.S. Supreme Court steps in this week, Alfredo Prieto will be executed Thursday - the first Virginia inmate to be receive the death penalty in nearly three years. The El Salvador native was already facing execution in California for raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl when a Virginia jury sentenced him to death in 2010 for the 1988 killings Rachael Raver and her boyfriend, Warren Fulton III.Alfredo Prieto raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl in CaliforniaHe also murdered a Virginia couple in 1988 and will be executed ThursdayPrieto claims he has a 'significant brain dysfunction' from a malnourished childhood in El Salvador but psychologists say he is brightThe state will use a lethal three-drug cocktail partially supplied by TexasVirginia has executed 110 people since 1976, the third highest state 
 Question:They want Prieto to return to _, where they believe he can receive a 'full and fair' assessment of his intellectual disability.

California