HAPPENING TODAY: An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 is scheduled on Wednesday morning to become the first person to be executed in the state after a nearly eight-year hiatus in its use of the death penalty.
FOX 10's Troy Hayden is set to witness - for the fourth time - the execution of an Arizona death row inmate.An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 is scheduled on Wednesday morning to become the first person to be executed in the state after a nearly eight-year hiatus in its use of the death penalty.at the state prison in Florence for his murder conviction in the killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin.
Dixon declined the option of being executed by the gas chamber — a method that hasn’t been used in the United States in more than two decades — after Arizona refurbished its gas chamber in late 2020. Instead, the state plans to execute him with an injection of pentobarbital.The state’s hiatus in executions was driven by an execution that critics say was botched and the difficulty of finding lethal injection drugs.
Dixon, who was an ASU student at the time and lived across the street from Bowdoin, had been charged with raping Bowdoin, but the charge was later dropped on statute-of-limitation grounds. He was convicted, though, in her death.In arguing their client was mentally unfit, Dixon’s lawyers have said he erroneously believes he will be executed because police at Northern Arizona University wrongfully arrested him in a previous case — a 1985 attack on a 21-year-old student.
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