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| AZ Wants Execution Date For Inmate |
| By azcentral.com |
| Published: 09/30/2010 |
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The Arizona Attorney General's Office has asked the state Supreme Court to set an execution date for a third death-row inmate who has exhausted his appeals. Daniel Wayne Cook was sentenced to death for killing two men in Lake Havasu City in 1987. The court will consider the request in October or November. If a death warrant is issued, Cook, 49, will be put to death 35 days later. On Sept. 21, the court issued a death warrant for Jeffrey Landrigan, 50, who killed a Phoenix man in 1989, but declined to issue a warrant for Richard Bible, who murdered a 9-year-old girl in Flagstaff in 1988. Landrigan is set to be executed by lethal injection on Oct. 26. But because one of the three drugs used in Arizona's lethal-injection procedure, which is codified by state and federal court decisions, is in short supply, the Arizona Department of Corrections must inform the court by Friday whether it can obtain enough to carry out the execution. Read More. |
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