Arizona Supreme Court allows death row execution to proceed

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court is allowing the state to move forward with the execution for death row inmate Murray Hooper next month. The state’s high court granted the motion for a warrant of execution Wednesday. The warrant says the 76-year-old will die by lethal injection or gas on Nov. 16. An assistant federal public defender representing Hooper did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. Hooper would be the third inmate put to death this year after Arizona recently resumed carrying out executions. He and two co-defendants were sentenced to death for the 1980 murders of a Phoenix man and his mother-in-law during a home robbery. The others died in prison.