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PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona can move forward with the execution of death row inmate Murray Hooper next month, the state's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.<br> The state's high court granted the motion for a warrant of execution of the 76-year-old.<br>He will die by lethal injection or gas in an execution scheduled for Nov. 16, according to the warrant signed by four justices. The other three recused themselves.<br> Kelly Culshaw, an assistant federal public defender representing Hooper, reiterated that Hooper has maintained his innocence in the double slayings on New Year's Eve in 1980.<br> He was convicted and sentenced "based on corrupt police practices and unreliable witness testimony," Culshaw said in a statement.<br> "No physical evidence links him to the crime and Mr. Hooper´s execution should not be carried out until an analysis of key fingerprint and DNA evidence, which was scientifically unavailable at the time of his trial, has been completed," she added.<br> Hooper's defense team filed a petition in September in Maricopa County Superior Court requesting post-conviction DNA and other forensic testing.<br> The petition argues Hooper was convicted in 1982, before the availability of computerized fingerprinting systems and DNA testing.<br> Hooper would be the third inmate put to death this year after Arizona recently resumed carrying out executions.<br> He and two co-defendants were sentenced to death for the murders of William "Pat" Redmond and [https://pinfaves.com/kim-hooper-houston-garden-center-weight-loss/ pinfaves.com] his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps, during a home robbery in Phoenix.<br><br>Redmond´s wife, Marilyn, was shot in the head but recovered.<br> Defense attorneys for Hooper say her description of the assailants changed several times before she identified Hooper, who claimed not to be in Arizona at the time.<br>They also allege criminal informants who helped implicate Hooper were influenced by incentives from the police.<br> The other two men convicted died before their sentences could be carried out.<br> When Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced in July he intended to seek the warrant, he called death "the appropriate response ... for the victims, their families and our communities."<br> The state hadn´t executed anyone for nearly eight years before Clarence Dixon died by lethal injection in May for the 1978 murder of a 21-year-old Arizona State University student.<br> Frank Atwood was executed in June at the state prison in Florence for the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old Tucson girl.<br> There are 111 inmates on Arizona´s death row, and 22 have exhausted their appeals, according to the Attorney General´s Office.<br><br><br>adverts.addToArray({"pos":"inread_player"})Advertisement