Clarence Dixon, 66, is scheduled to die at the Arizona state prison for his murder conviction in the 1978 killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin
This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows Clarence Dixon. FLORENCE, Ariz. — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the last-minute appeal from an Arizona prisoner to halt his execution less than one hour before he was scheduled to receive a lethal injection Wednesday for the killing of a college student in 1978. The decision cleared the way for Arizona’s first execution in nearly eight years.
Dixon declined the option of being executed by the gas chamber — a method that hasn’t been used in the United States in more than two decades — after Arizona refurbished its gas chamber in late 2020. Instead, the state plans to executed him with an injection of pentobarbital. Dixon, who was an ASU student at the time and lived across the street from Bowdoin, had been charged with raping Bowdoin, but the charge was later dropped on statute-of-limitation grounds. He was convicted, though, in her death.
Dixon was sentenced to life sentences in that case for sexual assault and other convictions. DNA samples taken while he was in prison later linked him to Bowdoin’s killing, which at that point had been unsolved.
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