Frank Atwood execution set for 10 a.m.
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Arizona’s second execution to date this year was scheduled for 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Frank Jarvis Atwood, 66, was set to be put to loss of life for the 1984 kidnapping and homicide of 8-year-old Vicki Lynne Hoskinson. His deadly injection comes lower than a month after the May execution of Clarence Dixon — the state’s first since 2014.
Atwood can be the thirty ninth particular person executed in Arizona since 1992.
Debbie Carlson, Vicki’s mom, at Atwood’s clemency listening to in May stated his execution would convey ultimate justice for her daughter and mark a brand new starting for her household.
“We chose the death penalty because we never wanted another child to have to be faced by this monster,” she stated. “We wanted to make sure another family was spared and not have to live what we have lived for the last 37 1/2 years.”
Follow protection from Republic reporters of the execution right here.
7 a.m.: Who was Vicki Lynne Hoskinson, sufferer of Atwood?
In 1984, Vicki Lynne Hoskinson stood about 4 feet tall, had short auburn hair and deep blue eyes. She lived in the Flowing Wells area of northern Tucson and had simply begun third grade at Homer Davis Elementary School, a couple of mile from her residence on Hadley Street.
Like many different 8-year-old women on the time, Vicki preferred taking part in with Barbies and her favourite meals had been Spaghetti O’s and french fries, her mother, Debbie Carlson, stated at Atwood’s clemency listening to final month.
But on the afternoon of Sept. 17, 1984, Vicki disappeared. She had been riding her pink bike home after mailing a birthday card to her aunt at a close-by nook mailbox.
About half-hour after Vicki left, her household discovered her bike mendacity in the course of Pocito Place, lower than a mile from their residence.
Several witnesses instructed authorities they noticed a person in a dark-colored Datsun driving slowly alongside Vicki earlier than she disappeared.
Despite huge search efforts, Vicki’s skeletal remains weren’t found until April 12, 1985, when a person strolling in desert land close to Ina and Artesiano roads noticed a small human cranium.
She was buried the following month at Evergreen Mortuary and Cemetery in Tucson. About 500 individuals attended her funeral providers.
“She’s here, she’s everywhere. … She’ll always be a part of us,” Carlson stated on the clemency listening to. “The inmate worked very, very hard to try to destroy our family, but I would like to say that he didn’t win.”
— Chelsea Curtis
