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Until I met Kathy, I had never witnessed the kind of self-study she engaged in to understand who she was before the crime that defined her life—and how she could begin to make amends.

Next week, the state of Arizona will put Clarence Dixon to death. The inmate was convicted of the murder of Arizona State University student Deanna Bowdoin in 1978. And last week, the state Board of Executive Clemency unanimously denied his attorneys’ appeal for a reprieve.The last time the state put someone to death in 2014, it was considered botched. It took Joseph Wood two

In one of the last steps to get through before the first execution in Arizona in nearly eight years, clemency was denied for Clarence Dixon.

66-year-old Clarence Dixon is scheduled to be executed on May 11 for the rape, stabbing and strangulation of 21-year-old Deana Bowdoin in 1978.

PHOENIX—Arizona remains on track, at least for now, to use the death penalty for the first time in ...

A court rejects a claim alleging there are too many former law enforcement officers on the clemency board, saying law enforcement is not a profession.

Arizona remains on track, at least for now, to use the death penalty for the first time in nearly eight years in an execution in which a condemned prisoner is being given the option of being put to death by the gas chamber — a method that hasn't been used in the U.S. in decades.

Arizona remains on track, at least for now, to use the death penalty for the first time in nearly eight years

Arizona remains on track, at least for now, to use the death penalty for the first time in nearly 8 years.

A legal challenge from Clarence Dixon, who is on death row, claims the clemency board is filled with law enforcement and is prejudiced against him.