The Arizona Supreme Court is allowing the state to move forward with the execution for death row inmate Murray Hooper next month.
Supreme Court is allowing the state to move forward with the execution for death row inmate Murray Hooper next month.The 76-year-old will die by lethal injection or gas on Nov. 16, according to the warrant signed by four justices. The other three recused themselves.
Kelly Culshaw, an assistant federal public defender representing Hooper, did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. Hooper would be the third inmate put to death this year after Arizona recently resumed carrying out executions.
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