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| Arizona Death Chamber |
PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the executions of two more death-row inmates, one for the brutal rape and murder of a Phoenix woman and the other for killing a Tucson college student after robbing him.
Samuel Villegas Lopez, 49, is scheduled to be executed on May 16. Thomas Arnold Kemp, 63, is set for execution on April 26. If both executions are carried out, and if the state can carry out three other executions on its radar screen, Arizona would be on pace to match its busiest year for executions in state history.
The most inmates Arizona has executed in a given year since establishing the death penalty in 1910 was seven inmates in 1999.
Arizona has executed two inmates so far this year — Robert Henry Moormann on Feb. 29 and Robert Charles Towery on March 8. It could schedule three more on top of Lopez's and Kemp's executions, putting the state on pace to execute seven men this year.
The state executed four inmates last year.
Source: The Republic, March 20, 2012
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