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Arizona Executes Inmate for 1984 Killing of 8-Year-Old Girl
KOCO ^ | Jun 8, 2022 | PAUL DAVENPORT and JACQUES BILLEAUD

Posted on 06/09/2022 3:29:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway

An Arizona man convicted of murder in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl was put to death Wednesday in the state’s second execution since officials resumed carrying out the death penalty in May following a nearly eight-year hiatus.

Frank Atwood, 66, died by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence for his murder conviction in the killing of Vicki Hoskinson, whose body was found in the desert, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said in a statement.

Vicki went missing months earlier after leaving her home in Tucson to drop a birthday card in a nearby mailbox.

(Excerpt) Read more at koco.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 1984; arizona; childmurder; deathpenalty; deathrow; execution; murder
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To: Brown Deer

People hold signs and protest the death penalty across the street from the Arizona State Prison ahead of the execution of Frank Atwood on June 8, 2022.

61 posted on 06/09/2022 5:41:44 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Osage Orange

Way too fucking long.

We have to kill to survive. That includes drag Queens, democrats, rinos, and dirtbags on death row, and congress critters.

Them or us.


62 posted on 06/09/2022 5:43:18 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Why waste a bullet? Hang him; or should have.


63 posted on 06/09/2022 5:44:06 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: MarvinStinson

I got a feeling most of them are pro abortion.


64 posted on 06/09/2022 5:46:47 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: SkyDancer

Why waste a bullet? Give that fncker the wheel. RIP out his guts and call it good.... I

We are going south in a basket.


65 posted on 06/09/2022 5:51:18 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: waterhill

I think they should die the same way they murdered their victims; let them feel the agony they inflicted on their victims.


66 posted on 06/09/2022 6:01:14 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: grey_whiskers

He should have been fried to a crisp for his offense against the 8 year old boy ...


67 posted on 06/09/2022 6:03:28 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SkyDancer

Correct
The Wheel would be cool though


68 posted on 06/09/2022 6:18:19 PM PDT by waterhill (Resist)
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To: Romans Nine

49, 28, 38…hike!


69 posted on 06/09/2022 6:19:30 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: OldWarBaby

Well if he can’t lay down on the gurney just stand him up and shoot his ass!


70 posted on 06/09/2022 6:22:14 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: SkyDancer
Why waste a bullet? Hang him; or should have.

I have long contended that we should bring back public hangings, but hanging is a lost art.

It took experienced and skilled hangmen to correctly calculate the length of the rope based on the weight and height of the hangee, so that his neck would snap when he was dropped. If the rope was too long you would decapitate him, too short and he would swing around choking to death.

71 posted on 06/09/2022 6:25:31 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Only GODS justice is perfect, and we ain’t GOD.

We just have to deal with it.


72 posted on 06/09/2022 6:28:33 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

That’s a fast track compared to what is normal today.


73 posted on 06/09/2022 6:34:14 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: MarvinStinson


Michael Colmenero (left) and John McCarthy hold signs in support of the death penalty and Vicki Lynne Hoskinson’s family across the street from the Arizona State Prison in Florence ahead of the execution of Frank Atwood on June 8, 2022.
74 posted on 06/09/2022 7:31:17 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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Vicki Lynne Hoskinson (second from left) in a family portrait taken 18 days before her abduction and murder.
75 posted on 06/09/2022 7:33:16 PM PDT by Brown Deer (America First!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Read where that Army guy who hanged the Nazi’s botched it.


76 posted on 06/09/2022 7:34:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

If I understand correctly, the neck-snap method is a relatively recent development. That’s why the judge would say “hang by the neck until you are dead.”


77 posted on 06/09/2022 7:43:04 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: nickcarraway

Frank, strapped to the execution gurney, and with God himself listening, you could have denied you killed the little girl but you didn’t even though you had 36 plus years to think about your LAST words.

AND, I haven’t read about ANY strong efforts by anybody to claim your innocence. So, assuming you ARE in fact guilty of killing this little innocent girl just for your own fun, I believe it’s a certainty that you will join so many others like you in an eternal hell! So, our society showed a little backbone today and protected others from any future predations by yourself.


78 posted on 06/09/2022 7:54:27 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: nickcarraway

Arizona’s Texas Style express lane is kickin’ in. We gotta execute these bass turds before the RATS and the Hollywood Kardashian Princesses get them released.


79 posted on 06/09/2022 8:04:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter
And why does it take 38 years to execute a death sentence?.

Because liberals wrote laws reflecting more concern for the human filth monsters than for the victims or society. Three years max in the future.

80 posted on 06/09/2022 8:16:37 PM PDT by GOPJ (It's NOT 'gun violence' it's 'CRIMINAL VIOLENCE'- RAPE isn't penis violence - it's criminal violence)
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