# Gas chamber
Alexis Young
In the wake of Dixon execution, Florence State Prison inmate Frank Atwood forgoes method-of-death choice
(Pinal Count, AZ) — In Florence state prison, Clarence Wayne Dixon was executed Wednesday, May 11, 2022, by lethal injection — the default method when inmates waive the right to choose their cause of death. Dixon forwent his decision and so has Frank Atwood.
Florence, AZ2022-05-24
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Prison paralytic: Don’t call it a comeback, Zyklon B has been here for 80 years
(Pinal County, AZ) — Deana Bowdoin was a 21-year-old student at Arizona State University in 1978 when her life was ground to a halt; now the man convicted of her brutal demise is facing his own. Clarence Wayne Dixon will be the first inmate executed on death row since Joseph Rudolph Wood’s III execution in 2014 and Walter LaGrand’s execution in 1999.
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