Clarence Dixon is executed, the first inmate in 8 years in Arizona after lethal injection controversy
Arizona had postponed the executions due to the controversial execution in July 2001 from Joseph Wood, who received 15 dose and it took him two hours to die.
Clarence Dixon was convicted of murder and sexual assault in connection with the death of Deana Bowdoin, a college student. Arizona State of 10 years in 1978, the case remained unsolved for decades until DNA linked it to the murder in 2001, was found guilty and sentenced to death in an execution that took place today.
His death occurs after a pause of eight years without administering the death penalty in that state due to a controversial case in which the prisoner remained alive despite repeated doses of the lethal injection.
Dixon, aged did have today at 10: 30 local time (10.30 GMT) in the Florence prison in Arizona after receiving the lethal injection.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich reported the execution and noted that there was justice “for Deana Bowdoin, her family and our communities”.
The young woman, who was found dead in her apartment in Tempe (AZ), had been raped, stabbed and strangled with a belt.
Dixon was living near Bowdoin’s apartment at the time.
Clarence Dixon, who was sentenced to death for the 1200 murder of Deana Bowdoin, was executed on Wednesday. Bowdoin was a student at Arizona State University when she was killed. https://t.co/5RZ3VQWA2E
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In recent weeks his lawyers tried to prevent the execution claiming that Dixon was not mentally capable of being executed and that he did not understand why the state wanted to kill him.
After the execution, Leslie Bowdoin, sister of the victim said at a press conference that in this case “never existed” the least doubt of Dixon’s guilt.
He stressed that the genetic tests were forceful and he only regretted how long and painful this entire legal process was.
He described his sister as a cheerful woman, full of life, who had many friends and a life ahead of her.
Dixon was arrested in 1985 for the sexual assault against another student for which he was sentenced to life in prison.
Genetic evidence obtained in that case linked Dixon to the death of Bowdoin, whose case was unsolved at the time.
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