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By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - An Arizona judge has ruled that a death row inmate convicted of killing a university student in 1978 failed to prove he...
By Brendan O'Brien (Reuters) - An Arizona judge has ruled that a death row inmate convicted of killing a university student in 1978 failed to prove he...
A Pinal County Superior Court judge ruled Clarence Dixon mentally fit to be executed in his conviction of killing an ASU student in 1978.
In a ruling signed shortly before midnight Tuesday and released on May 4, Pinal County Superior Court Judge Robert Olson rejected an argument from defense lawyers that Clarence Dixon’s psychological problems prevent him from rationally understanding why the state wants to end his life.