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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jacques Billeaud

Arizona death-row prisoner makes last-minute claim to court

Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry

An Arizona prisoner scheduled to be executed Wednesday in the 1980 killings of two people asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review his claim that authorities had until recently withheld that a survivor had failed to identify him in a photo lineup.

Lawyers for Murray Hooper, who was convicted of killing William “Pat” Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps, say the existence of the photo lineup wasn't disclosed until this month.

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