Murray Hooper: Arizona double murderer's bid to avoid death penalty denied, set to be executed on Nov 16

Murray Hooper: Arizona double murderer's bid to avoid death penalty denied, set to be executed on Nov 16
Murray Hooper will be the third to be executed since Arizona resumed the death penalty this year (ABC15/video screenshot)

PHOENIX, ARIZONA: The Arizona Board of Executive Clemency refused death row inmate Murray Hooper's request for compassion on Thursday, November 3. According to state attorneys, Hooper, 76, had several opportunities to litigate the problems he raised before the Board, however, none of those courts were receptive to his pleadings. Hooper, will be executed on November 16 for the 1980 double murder case. It will be the third execution since Arizona resumed the death penalty this year.

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Hooper was one of three men convicted of murdering Patrick Redmond and his mother-in-law, Helen Phelps, as they prepared for a New Year's Eve celebration in Phoenix in 1980, as per reported by az central. Kirsten Valenzuela, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office Capital Litigation Bureau Chief, said, "Murray Hooper is not an innocent man. His convictions are just and true."