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Frank Atwood, 66, feasted on peanut butter and salami and prayed for mercy before being put to death by lethal injection for killing Vicki Lynne Hoskinson in Arizona, USA

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An appeals court denied a bid by an Arizona prisoner to delay his execution scheduled for Wednesday for his conviction in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl

Sean Bickings, 34, drowned after beginning to swim in Tempe Town Lake. Officers watched from the shore as Bickings struggled in the water.

Frank Atwood, who has a degenerative spinal condition, has had his bid to delay his execution by lethal injection denied despite arguing being strapped to the gurney would cause him severe pain

Three police officers were caught on body-worn camera standing by and watching as a homeless man cried out for help and drowned in Arizona, USA

Police officer was heard telling Sean Bickings ‘I’m not jumping in after you’

Three police officers in Arizona have been placed on leave after they failed to rescue a homeless man from drowning.

An Arizona man says he wrongfully spent 17 days in a rural New Mexico jail in 2021 after American Airlines mistakenly pinpointed him while helping police with a theft investigation at DFW International Airport, according to a lawsuit filed in Fort Worth Monday.