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May 12, 2022

Arizona Executes Blind 66-Year-Old Man with Paranoid Schizophrenia
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The state of Arizona has executed Clarence Dixon, a blind 66-year-old
man who, his lawyers say, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and was
in declining health. Witnesses said authorities had to wipe up a fair
amount of blood after officials struggled to inject lethal drugs into
him. It was the first execution in Arizona in eight years. Dixon was
convicted of murdering a student in 1978, but he always proclaimed his
innocence.


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