Murray Hooper's request for mercy was denied on Thursday by the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency.
The Arizona Board of Executive Clemency denied a request for mercy from death row prisoner Murray Hooper on Thursday, removing one of the last barriers between him and an approaching execution date.
Attorneys for the state said that Hooper had many opportunities to litigate the issues he had brought before the Board, and none of those courts were sympathetic to his pleas. Assistant Federal Public Defender Nicole List said the Board"cannot and should not" have confidence in a sentence of death. Hooper's team had asked for a commutation of the death sentence to life without the possibility of parole, or a reprieve of the death sentence, to pursue fingerprint and DNA evidence testing. The Board unanimously rejected both requests after a five-hour hearing.
Mendez said she was a"big believer in the judicial system," and commented that Hooper's claims of additional evidence and misconduct have extensively examined and reexamined by the courts.“Mr. Hooper's claims of innocence are in the face of overwhelming or at least compelling evidence," board member Louis Quinonez said.
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