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A federal judge ruled against an Arizona death-row inmates request to have his execution delayed on the notion that he would feel excruciating pain.

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Frank Atwood was sentenced in 1987 for the kidnapping and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Pima County, Vicki Lynne Hoskinson.

TUCSON (KVOA) — For 25 years, Frank Jarvis Atwood has been sitting on death row here in Florence, Ariz. after he was convicted for killing an 8-year-old Tucsonan in 1987.

Arizona’s clemency board has declined to recommend to Gov. Doug Ducey that the death sentence of a man convicted in the 1984 kidnapping and killing of an 8-year-old girl be reduced to a lesser punishment, rejecting his claims that he is innocent of the crimes.

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich commends the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency for denying convicted killer Frank Atwood a request for commutation or a reprieve. Atwood kidnapped and murdered 8-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson in September 1984 while she was riding her bicycle home after mailing a birthday card to her aunt. 

Arizona’s clemency board has declined to recommend to Gov. Doug Ducey that the death sentence of a man convicted in the 1984 kidnapping and killing of an 8-year-old girl be reduced to a lesser punishment, rejecting his claims that he is innocent of the crimes.

An Arizona prisoner is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in less than three weeks for killing an 8-year-old girl, marking the second condemned man to decline lethal gas since the state refurbished its gas chamber — a method of execution that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in more than 20 years.

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A gifted poet and world traveler, Arizona State University student Deana Lynne Bowdoins life was cut short by a murderer in 1978.