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The Arizona Supreme Court on Monday denied Attorney General Mark Brnovich's request to shorten the briefing schedules for the execution of death row inmates Clarence Dixon and Frank Atwood.
Combined with another action by the court, the ruling vacates the state's requested execution dates and officials
must now file warrants for execution when they can determine an accurate use-by date for the drugs used for the lethal injection.
Instead of potentially facing execution in September and October for warrants filed in May as the state initially requested, Atwood and Dixon likely will face execution within a little over a month after the state files the new warrants. It's not clear when that filing will happen.