US Supreme Court clears way for Arizona prisoner s execution wtop.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wtop.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.