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~ Frank Atwood, 08Jun22, (AZ) ~
By: BuzzC Date: May 19, 2022, 6:46 pm
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Tucson child-killer to be executed by lethal injection--
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
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PHOENIX — An Arizona prisoner is scheduled to be executed by
lethal injection in less than three weeks for the killing of
Vicki Hoskinson, an 8-year-old Tucson girl.
It will mark the second condemned man to decline lethal gas
since Arizona refurbished its gas chamber — a method of
execution that hasn’t been used in the United States in more
than 20 years.
Frank Atwood declined to pick a method of execution when
corrections officials asked him if he wanted to die by lethal
injection or the gas chamber. Lethal injection is Arizona’s
default execution method when condemned prisoners refuse to make
a selection.
Clarence Dixon, who earlier this month became the first prisoner
to be executed in Arizona since July 2014, also had refused to
make a choice on his execution method.
The last lethal gas execution in the United States was carried
out in 1999 in Arizona, which refurbished its gas chamber at the
prison in Florence in late 2020. The state also had purchased
materials to make hydrogen cyanide gas, which was used in some
past U.S. executions and by Nazis to kill 865,000 Jews at the
Auschwitz concentration camp alone.
Death penalty experts say the United States turned away from the
gas chamber and switched to lethal injections due to the
horrific nature of the lethal gas deaths. They said gas chamber
executions were slow deaths in which prisoners gasped for
breath, thrashed their restrained bodies and appeared to be in
excruciating pain.
Arizona, California, Missouri and Wyoming are the only states
with decades-old lethal-gas execution laws still on the books.
Arizona is the only one that still has a working gas chamber.
Atwood is scheduled to be executed with an injection of
pentobarbital on June 8 for his murder conviction in the killing
of Hoskinson in 1984.
Authorities have said Atwood kidnapped the girl, whose remains
were discovered in the desert northwest of Tucson nearly seven
months after her disappearance. Experts could not determine the
cause of death from the bones that were found, according to
court records.
Atwood’s defense team didn’t have immediate comment on the
method of execution for their client.
Deborah Denno, a Fordham Law School professor who has studied
executions for more than 25 years, said a substantial number of
condemned people don’t make a selection when asked how they want
to be put to death.
“No one knows the reasons (why), but one factor is they are
depressed and have given up,” Denno said. “This is the least of
their worries. They are going to die.”
The state's nearly eight-year hiatus in executions that ended
with Dixon's May 11 death has been attributed to the difficulty
of securing lethal injection drugs as manufacturers refuse to
supply them and problems encountered during the July 2014
execution of Joseph Wood.
Wood was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination over nearly
two hours. Wood snorted repeatedly and gasped before he died.
His attorney said the execution had been botched.
In recent years, Oklahoma, Mississippi and Alabama have passed
laws allowing executions with nitrogen gas, at least in some
circumstances, though experts say it’s never been done and no
state has established a protocol that would allow it, according
to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The last prisoner to be executed in a U.S. gas chamber was
Walter LaGrand, the second of two German brothers sentenced to
death for killing a bank manager in 1982 in southern Arizona. It
took LaGrand 18 minutes to die in 1999.
Both brothers chose the gas chamber in hopes that courts would
find the method unconstitutional. While Karl LaGrand accepted
the state’s last-minute offer of lethal injection, Walter
LaGrand rejected it, saying he would prefer a more painful
execution to protest the death penalty.
The case drew widespread criticism in Germany, which has no
death penalty, and prompted repeated diplomatic protests.
Arizona’s gas chamber refurbishment was condemned
internationally, including coverage in Israel and Germany
drawing parallels to Holocaust atrocities.
In early April, a judge denied a request by the Jewish Community
Relations Council of Greater Phoenix to bar the state from using
cyanide gas to carry out executions in Arizona.
Arizona now has 112 prisoners left on the state’s death row.
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Re: ~ Frank Atwood, 08Jun22, (AZ) ~
By: BuzzC Date: June 8, 2022, 7:32 am
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Arizona set to execute Frank Atwood, who killed 8 year old girl
in 1984--
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
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PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1984 killing
of an 8-year-old girl is scheduled to be executed Wednesday in
what would be the state’s second execution since officials
started carrying out the death penalty in May after a nearly
eight-year hiatus.
Frank Atwood, 66, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the
state prison in Florence for his murder conviction in the
killing of Vicki Hoskinson, whose body was found in the desert.
She went missing months earlier after leaving her home in Tucson
to drop a birthday card in a nearby mailbox.
Arizona also has a gas chamber and inmates are allowed to choose
between that and lethal injection, but he declined, leaving him
to die by lethal injection, the state's default execution
method.
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Re: ~ Frank Atwood, 08Jun22, (AZ) ~
By: BuzzC Date: June 8, 2022, 2:54 pm
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Arizona executes inmate for 1984 killing of 8-year-old girl--
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
FLORENCE, Ariz. — An Arizona man convicted of murder in the 1984
killing of an 8-year-old girl was put to death Wednesday in the
state’s second execution since officials resumed carrying out
the death penalty in May following a nearly eight-year hiatus.
Frank Atwood, 66, died by lethal injection at the state prison
in Florence for his murder conviction in the killing of Vicki
Hoskinson, whose body was found in the desert, Arizona Attorney
General Mark Brnovich said in a statement.
Vicki went missing months earlier after leaving her home in
Tucson to drop a birthday card in a nearby mailbox.
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Atwood’s execution
Wednesday morning after rejecting a final appeal by his lawyers.
He died at 10:16 a.m., Brnovich said.
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