All known requests to stop the execution of an Arizona death row inmate
have been denied, so the plan to carry out a second death sentence in
eight days moved ahead Thursday.
Robert Charles Towery, 47, was scheduled to be given a lethal injection
at 10 a.m. at the state prison in Florence, after spending nearly 20
years on death row for robbing and killing Mark Jones, of Scottsdale.
Towery's attorneys made several unsuccessful last-minute arguments in an
effort to spare him, including a Wednesday request with the Arizona
Supreme Court to reduce his sentence to 25 years to life in prison
because Towery's co-defendant spent less than 10 years in prison.
Randy Allen Barker, the other man convicted in the killing, was given a
plea deal for testifying against Towery and was released from prison in
2001.
Towery's lawyers argued that although Towery strangled Jones, Barker was
holding the gun, watched the prolonged killing and "exhibited extreme
indifference to human life."
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