Arizona executes man convicted of 1978 strangling

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Arizona executes man convicted of 1978 strangling

By David Schwartz and Karen Brooks PHOENIX/AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - An Arizona death row inmate convicted of strangling a 74-year-old man and fleeing in the victim's new Cadillac more than three decades ago was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, and another man was due to be executed in Texas later in the day. Edward Harold Schad, who at 71 was Arizona's oldest death row inmate, was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m. local time at Florence State Prison, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne said. ...

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