PHOENIX – The first execution in Arizona in nearly eight years was carried out more smoothly than the state’s last use of the death penalty, when a condemned prisoner who was given 15 doses of a ...

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This undated photo provided by Alabama Department of Corrections shows inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith, who was convicted in a 1988 murder-for-hire slaying of a preachers wife. Smith, 57, is scheduled to ...

PHOENIX (AP) — The first execution in Arizona in nearly eight years was carried out more smoothly than the state’s last use of the death penalty, when a condemned prisoner who was given 15 doses of a ...

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows Clarence Dixon. The first execution in Arizona in nearly eight years was carried out more smoothly than the state ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PHOENIX (AP) — The first execution in ...