Plans to execute an Arizona man for two killings in 1980 remain on track after a judge denied the inmate’s bid to postpone a scheduled lethal injection
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows Murray Hooper. Hooper is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Nov. 16, 2022, for his convictions in the 1980 killings of Pat Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps, in Phoenix. On Monday, Nov. 14 a federal judge denied Hooper's bid to postpone the execution.
“Even if forensic testing establishes what Plaintiff hopes it will, that alone will not invalidate the other evidence used to convict him,” McNamee wrote. His lawyers say Marilyn Redmond’s description of the assailants changed several times before she identified their client, who said he was not in Arizona at the time. They also raised questions about the benefits received by witnesses who testified against her client, including favorable treatment in other criminal cases.
Two other men, William Bracy and Edward McCall, were convicted in the killings but died before their death sentences could be carried out.
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