FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) An Arizona man convicted of murdering two people in 1980 was put to death Wednesday in the state’s third execution since officials started carrying out the death penalty in May after a nearly eight-year hiatus.
PHOENIX (AP) A man convicted in the 1980 killings of two people was scheduled to die Wednesday in what would be Arizona's third execution since it started carrying out the death penalty in May after a nearly eight-year hiatus.
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The Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal from an Arizona prisoner who faces execution on Wednesday for his murder convictions in the killings of two people in 1980
Murray Hooper, 76, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence at 10.34am on Wednesday. He declined to choose a method of execution and was given lethal injection by default.