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The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a last-minute appeal by an Arizona inmate to postpone execution for the murder of an 8-year-old girl in 1984, paving the way for a second execution in less than a month in this state.
Frank Atwood, 66, is scheduled to die from a lethal injection Wednesday at Florence State Prison in Arizona.
He was found guilty and convicted of killing Vicki Hoskinson, whose body was found in the desert.
She had been missing for several months after leaving her home in Tucson to throw a birthday card in a nearby mailbox.
Atwood’s lawyers had asked the Supreme Court to postpone the execution, arguing that the aggravating factor that made his crime fit for the death penalty had been invalidated, the AP news agency reports.
Opponents of the death penalty worry that Arizona will now begin executing a wave of death row inmates, but state officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on their future execution plans.
No further executions are planned so far in Arizona, which has 112 inmates sentenced to death.
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