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Joseph Wood |
A July 23 execution date has been set for an Arizona death row inmate convicted
in the killings of his estranged girlfriend and her father in Tucson nearly 25
years ago.
The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday set the execution date for 55-year-old
Joseph Rudolph Wood III.
Wood was sentenced to death for the August 1989 murders of Debra and Eugene
Dietz at the Tucson auto-body shop where they worked.
Appeals courts have upheld Wood's convictions and death sentence and the
Arizona Attorney General's Office says Wood has exhausted his appeals and has
no action pending in any court.
A defense lawyer for Wood is opposed to Arizona's intent to use midazolam and
hydromorphone in a 3-drug protocol, saying the drugs were problematic during
recent executions in other states.
Source: Associated Press, May 29, 2014