The Arizona Supreme Court is allowing the state to move forward with the execution for death row inmate Murray Hooper next month.
PHOENIX — Arizona can move forward with the execution of death row inmate Murray Hooper next month, the state's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.
He was convicted and sentenced “based on corrupt police practices and unreliable witness testimony,” Culshaw said in a statement. The petition argues Hooper was convicted in 1982, before the availability of computerized fingerprinting systems and DNA testing. Defense attorneys for Hooper say her description of the assailants changed several times before she identified Hooper, who claimed not to be in Arizona at the time. They also allege criminal informants who helped implicate Hooper were influenced by incentives from the police.When Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced in July he intended to seek the warrant, he called death"the appropriate response ... for the victims, their families and our communities.
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