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Arizona Joins Ohio in Setting New Execution Dates; Missouri Executes

By Steve Hall

"Arizona Supreme court OKs death warrants for 2 men," is the title of Michael Kiefer's report in today's Arizona Republic. The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday approved death warrants for two death-row prisoners, clearing the way for their executions.Eric King, 47, is scheduled for execution March 29 for a 1989 crime spree in which he and an accomplice robbed a Phoenix convenience store.King shot and killed the clerk, Ron Barman, and a security guard, Richard Butts, with Butts' pistol before making off with about $72.Daniel Wayne Cook, 49, who received two death sentences, will be executed April 5.He was convicted of murdering two men in Lake Havasu City in 1987. And: Cook's execution has already been postponed several times as state courts considered whether his post-traumatic stress disorder warranted a new trial and whether the state of Arizona had properly obtained the drugs that will be used in his execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 09, 2011 (boomark / email).