A lawsuit was struck down asking a judge to hold off on putting Clarence Dixon to death until he's shown the execution drugs have been given an expiration date. The judge said they haven't expired and the execution is still set for just days from now.
A judge has ruled that an Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1978 killing of a university student is mentally fit to be put to death next week, keeping on track what would be theIn 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.
, said there was nothing about Dixon’s beliefs that prevented him from understanding the reason for the execution and pointed to court filings that Dixon himself made over the years. In the new lawsuit, Dixon’s lawyers said corrections officials gave them heavily redacted records documenting the testing of the drug, but that they didn’t provide the assigned expiration date.