PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request to postpone the planned execution of an Arizona prisoner in what would be the state’s first use of the death penalty in nearly eight years.
The judge’s decision keeps on track plans to execute 66-year-old Clarence Dixon Wednesday morning at the state prison in Florence, Arizona, for his murder conviction in the 1978 killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin.
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