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PHOENIX The Arizona Supreme Court has set a July 21 deadline for prosecutors to request a warrant that would trigger the state’s first execution in almost seven years.
The state’s highest court said it expects on Aug. 24 to consider the state’s request to execute death-row inmate Frank Atwood.
Atwood and Clarence Dixon are the first death row prisoners in Arizona to be eyed for execution since the 2014 death of Joseph Wood, who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination over two hours. Wood’s attorney said the execution was botched.
Atwood was convicted in Pima County and sentenced to death for killing 8-year-old Vicki Lynn Hoskinson in 1984. Authorities say Atwood kidnapped the girl, whose body was found in the desert northwest of Tucson.
Frank Atwood (left) and Clarence Dixon.
The Arizona Supreme Court has set timetables for the state to make its case for conducting the first executions in seven years.
The court granted requests from Attorney General Mark Brnovich to set briefing schedules for pursuing warrants of execution for prisoners Frank Atwood and Clarence Dixon.
Assistant Federal Public Defender Dale Baich, an attorney for Dixon, requested the Supreme Court postpone the ruling on the attorney general’s request for an execution timetable until the fall.
In their recent orders, the Supreme Court denied those requests.
After the attorney general files the motions seeking the warrants, responses from defense attorneys and replies to those responses will be due to the court by Aug. 11 for Atwood and Sept. 2 for Dixon.
Arizona Supreme Court Sets Deadline For Warrant Seeking Frank Atwood s Execution
On 5/26/21 at 11:18 AM EDT
The Arizona Supreme Court has set a deadline for prosecutors to request a warrant to execute the state s first death row inmate since a botched execution in 2014.
Arizona s highest court said prosecutors have until July 21 to request a warrant to execute convicted killer Frank Atwood, 64. The order said the court expects to consider the state s request on August 24.
The court also rejected Atwood s request to hear evidence about the execution protocol.
Prosecutors have said the pentobarbital to be used in the execution would expire 90 days after the chemical powder is compounded into an injectable fluid, but Atwood s attorneys say the drug is unusable 45 days after it is compounded, according to the