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    Atwood's execution will likely be scheduled for June 8. The Arizona Supreme Court anticipates a conference date of May 3 for the state's motion to issue a warrant of execution.

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    Man on death row requests changes to execution protocol in Arizona regarding access to spiritual adviser

    By Jimmy Jenkins
    The Arizona Republic

    An Arizona death row prisoner says his religious rights will be violated if he is not granted access to his spiritual adviser during his potential execution.

    The Arizona Supreme Court recently granted the state’s request to set a briefing schedule for Frank Atwood, who was sentenced to death in Pima County in 1987 for the murder of an 8-year-old girl, Vicki Lynne Hoskinson.

    Atwood is currently being held in the Browning Unit at the Eyman State Prison Complex in Florence.

    In early May, the Court will have a conference where they could decide whether to grant a warrant and set a date for Atwood’s execution.

    Should that occur, Atwood, who practices the Greek Orthodox faith, wants his priest to be able to lay hands on him and pray over him during the execution.

    The current Department of Corrections protocols allow for a spiritual adviser to speak with the prisoner in the death chamber from another room via microphone, but do not allow them to be in the same room as the prisoner.

    Attorneys for Atwood filed a complaint this week in the United States District Court of Arizona, Tucson Division, claiming the DOC protocols would violate his constitutional rights. They are asking the federal court to stay any pending execution warrant from the state supreme court until the DOC changes their execution protocols to allow the spiritual adviser in the room and to place his hands on Atwood during prayer.

    In the complaint, Atwood’s attorneys highlight his history of devout faith.

    “Although he is incarcerated on Arizona’s death row, he observes a strict schedule of prayer and study at the direction of his priest, Father Paisios, Abbot of the St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery in Florence, who baptized him into the faith in July 2000,” the attorneys wrote.

    The complaint states Paisios has visited and ministered to Atwood regularly for many years “despite, at different points, imposition by the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry of unlawful impediments.”

    According to the complaint, the current DOC execution protocols violate Atwood’s rights under the Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.

    “Mr. Atwood seeks the modification of ADCRR’s Execution Protocol to comport with his religious exercise under the law,” said his attorney, Joseph Perkovich. “Should he face execution, he seeks to do so in a manner consistent with fundamental tenets of his devout Greek Orthodox faith. He seeks the ability for his longtime spiritual advisor to administer last rights to him as the State would attempt to put him to death.”

    The Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of a death row prisoner in Texas who challenged the state prison system’s ban on the practice of a spiritual adviser laying hands on the prisoner during an execution. Writing the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts said the prisoner “is likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of injunctive relief because he will be unable to engage in protected religious exercise in the final moments of his life.”

    The Arizona Department of Corrections declined to comment pending litigation.

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    Arizona Supreme Court schedules execution for convicted murderer Frank Atwood

    PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court has signed a warrant of execution for convicted murderer Frank Atwood.

    Atwood is now scheduled to be executed on June 8, 2022. Atwood would be the second inmate killed since the state resumed executions. Clarence Dixon is scheduled to be the first and is scheduled to be executed on May 11.

    In September 1984, Frank Atwood kidnapped and murdered 8-year-old Vicki Lynn Hoskinson, whose body was later found in the Tucson desert a year later.

    Vicki had left her Tucson home on a bicycle to go mail a card and never returned.

    Atwood was seen that night with blood on his hands at a park where homeless people often gather and was eventually connected to a vehicle seen in the neighborhood where Vicki lived.

    A U.S. Magistrate in Tucson issued a warrant for Atwood's arrest for kidnapping. After hearing from his parents that he was headed to New Orleans and having car trouble in Kerrville Texas, the FBI located and arrested Atwood. At the car dealership where Atwood was arrested, police checked the car and found pink paint on the front bumper of the car. The bicycle the girl was riding was the same color pink.

    On April 11, 1985, nearly seven months after the girl's disappearance her skeletal remains were found in the desert outside Tucson. Prosecutors then added murder to the charges against Atwood.

    https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/ari...d-frank-atwood
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    Mother of Tucson murder victim speaks out ahead of set execution of man who killed her daughter

    By Mary Coleman
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    TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - The mother of a young Tucson girl who was murdered says their family is ready to see justice with their own eyes.

    This comes as the man convicted for the killing awaits execution.

    It’s been 37 years since Vicki Lynne Hoskinson was kidnapped from her home in Tucson and murdered. Her loved ones say faith and family have helped them, but they are now preparing for the biggest step to help them move on from the nightmare.

    “I don’t think you really ever get closure,” says Vicki Lynne’s mother Debbie Carlson. “And I kind of don’t like that word because she’s never coming back, you know? But yet we will no longer have this cloud hanging over our head wondering...is the Attorney General’s office going to be calling? Did they file another motion...was something granted? Was something denied?”

    It was a phone call Carlson had received too many times...being told the execution of her daughter’s killer would be delayed yet again.

    Frank Atwood was convicted of killing 8-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson in 1984.

    This week, the Arizona Supreme Court signed a death warrant for Atwood, and he is set to be executed next month. It’s a moment Carlson says her family has been anxiously awaiting.

    “Because of his poor choice, he’s suffering the consequences, and those consequences is the death penalty, because that’s the sentence he was given.”

    She says the stress from the murder has impacted the family’s health and well being. And watching the family grow and experience things without Vicki Lynne is heartbreaking. But they vowed not to give her murderer the power to destroy what they had left.

    Carlson reflected on who her daughter would have been...

    “She was a fierce ball player. Softball player. And she was pretty tall for her age. I could have seen her playing for the U of A. I really could have seen her being an all-around athlete...getting a full ride scholarship and just making some awesome changes in the world.”

    Carlson says she Vicki Lynn would have been 46-years-old, and she sees her daughter in some of the kids in the family, from their features to their personalities.

    As they prepare for the execution, Carlson says justice being served has been their goal all along, and they feel the time has finally come.

    “It’ll just be a beginning of a different chapter. And it will not be with him there. No more. And we’re looking forward to it.”

    The family says they plan to be there for Atwood’s execution scheduled for Wednesday, June 8th.

    Atwood would be the second inmate killed since the state resumed executions.

    https://www.kold.com/2022/05/06/moth...-her-daughter/
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    Atwood has not made a choice so once again we are robbed of a gas execution.
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    The outrage would have been hilarious in this one since Atwood's mother was an Austrian Jew who fled Europe when the Nazis took power.

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    i hate that the victims don't get protocols or stays, or commuted to life, but the murdering creeps do

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    Arizona prisoner Frank Atwood requests execution using nitrogen instead of cyanide gas

    By Jimmy Jenkins
    The Arizona Republic

    Death row prisoner Frank Atwood is requesting the state execute him in the gas chamber, but with nitrogen gas, as opposed to the cyanide specified in the Arizona Department of Corrections protocols.

    Atwood is scheduled to be executed on June 8. He was sentenced to death in Pima County in 1987 for the murder of an 8-year-old girl, Vicki Lynne Hoskinson.

    Because Atwood’s crimes occurred before the gas chamber was outlawed in Arizona in 1992, he has a choice between death by lethal gas or lethal injection.

    State law requires that Atwood choose a method of execution 20 days prior to the execution, which leaves Atwood’s deadline to choose as 12:01 a.m. on May 20.

    If Atwood does not make a choice, then the default method to be used by the state is lethal injection.

    Atwood’s attorneys have argued both methods would lead to a “torturous” amount of pain, and therefore neither are constitutional. They say Atwood is in a wheelchair and suffers from a spinal condition that would cause him "the maximum level of pain the human brain can process" if he were strapped to a gurney for lethal injection, pointing to the extended amount of time it takes the Arizona execution teams to insert IVs into death row prisoners.

    Attorneys for Clarence Dixon, who was executed by lethal injection on May 11, said execution members took 40 minutes to insert IVs in Dixon's arms, before finally resorting to cutting into his groin and administering the drugs into his femoral vein.

    Atwood's attorneys say the use of cyanide in a gas chamber is also unconstitutional, because it would lead to a gruesome death by asphyxiation.

    The state's last gas chamber execution using cyanide was Walter LaGrand in 1999, documented by witnesses as “agonizing” and lasting 18 minutes.

    The last cyanide gas chamber death prior to LaGrand, the 1992 gas chamber execution of Don Harding, was described by his attorney as “slow, painful, degrading and inhumane.”

    “To be clear, locking a human being in a chamber and flooding it with gas to extinguish his life should be a barbarism banished to history, not a current mode of correctional administration,” Atwood attorney Joseph Perkovich wrote in a letter to the Arizona Attorney General's Office and the Department of Corrections. “Nonetheless, numerous other gases instead of cyanide may be used to conduct a constitutional execution under Arizona law.”

    Perkovich said Atwood proposed the use of nitrogen through an administrative grievance procedure sent on May 1, but the state refused to process it.

    He said Atwood had indeed made a choice of death by nitrogen gas, and the state was wrong to determine his failure to choose cyanide gas or lethal injection as a failure to choose at all.

    “Thus, this letter demands that the Department immediately implement a nitrogen lethal gas method,” Perkovich wrote on May 14. “Arizona’s constitution and statute fail to designate a kind of gas for its lethal gas method, and historically that determination has fallen to the Department.”

    In a response letter to Perkovich written May 16, Chief Counsel of the Office of Attorney General Capital Litigation Section Jeff Sparks said current Department of Corrections procedures using cyanide did not violate any applicable statutory or constitutional provision, “and, therefore, ADCRR will not be making any changes to these procedures.”

    Arizona is the only state that still has a functioning gas chamber.

    Atwood’s attorneys said a warden and deputy warden at the Eyman prison complex where he is being held “have approached Mr. Atwood ... and exhorted him to elect one of the existing methods of execution, notwithstanding the unavailability of a legally valid choice.”

    “The choice between one form of torture and another form of torture is no choice at all,” Perkovich said Thursday.

    The Department of Corrections and the Attorney General’s Office did not immediately respond to questions about Atwood’s request as of Thursday evening.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/arizona-p...022707863.html
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    Atwood’s attorneys have argued both methods would lead to a “torturous” amount of pain, and therefore neither are constitutional. They say Atwood is in a wheelchair and suffers from a spinal condition that would cause him "the maximum level of pain the human brain can process" if he were strapped to a gurney for lethal injection, pointing to the extended amount of time it takes the Arizona execution teams to insert IVs into death row prisoners.

    Even as the house libtard, I hate this argument, and don't find it relevant. First off, they don't know this to be true, it is speculation. Second, yes our executions are supposed to be humane, but nothing that he feels could be less humane than what he did to a helpless 8 year old girl and her family.
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    Precisely. Nobody is entitled to a pain-free execution. Back pain and discomfort from needles are not unconstitutional, and they could always give him a painkiller. It's time for this malignant narcissist to pay the piper.
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