The Associated Press via Fox News
PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court has stopped the scheduled execution of an inmate who was scheduled to be put to death Wednesday morning for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old Tempe girl in 1984.
The temporary stay of execution signed by Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch was issued Tuesday night after a motion was filed with the state’s highest court and the U.S. District Court in Phoenix by lawyers for convicted killer Donald Beaty.
Arizona officials had planned to replace one of three drugs to be used in the execution because federal officials contended the state failed to fill out a form to import the drug being swapped out.
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