Arizona Prisoner to Be Executed by Lethal Injection

Arizona Prisoner to Be Executed by Lethal Injection
Murray Hooper. Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP
The Associated Press
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PHOENIX—An Arizona prisoner who is scheduled to be executed in three weeks for two 1980 killings will be put to death by lethal injection.

Attorneys for Murray Hooper said Wednesday that he 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.