Board denies Murray Hooper's request to avoid death penalty
Murray Hooper's request for mercy was denied on Thursday by the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency.
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Murray Hooper's request for mercy was denied on Thursday by the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency.
Arizona’s clemency board will keep inmate Murray Hooper's planned execution on track for his conviction in two 1980 killings.
There are 111 prisoners on Arizona’s death row, and 22 have exhausted their appeals, according to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office.
Arizona’s clemency board unanimously declined on Thursday to recommend that the governor commute a man’s death sentence to life in prison, keeping the inmate’s planned execution on track for his conviction in two 1980 killings.
The decision by the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency marks one of the last steps before Murray Hooper’s scheduled Nov. 16 execution for the slayings of William ’Pat” Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps.