A federal appeals court on Tuesday denied a bid by an Arizona prisoner to delay his execution scheduled for this week for his conviction in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl, rejecting his challenges to the state's death penalty procedures and keeping on track its plans to put him to death.
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a request for a stay of execution for Frank Atwood, who is scheduled to be lethally injected with pentobarbital Wednesday at the state prison in Florence, Arizona, for his conviction in the killing of Vicki Hoskinson.
