Arizona set to execute Frank Atwood, who killed girl in 1984
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Arizona prisoner Frank Atwood will become Arizona's second executed prisoner since the state reintroduced the death penalty. He was convicted in the 1984 murder of 8-year-old Vicki Hoskinson, whose body was found in the desert.
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Atwood’s execution Wednesday morning after rejecting a final appeal by his lawyers.
Atwood is set to be the second Arizona prisoner to be put to death in less than a month. The execution of Clarence Dixon last month ended Arizona’s halt to executions that was blamed on the difficulty of obtaining lethal injection drugs and criticism that a 2014 execution in the state was botched.
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