Judge Responds After Murderer Argues His Backache Combined with Execution Would Just Be Too Uncomfortable

An Arizona judge denied a request to delay the execution of a prisoner who argued that the state’s death penalty procedures would violate his rights by subjecting him to severe pain.
Frank Atwood is facing the death penalty, but his attorneys have said that their client would undergo extreme suffering if he was strapped to the execution gurney on his back, KSAZ-TV reported.
The 66-year-old Atwood suffers from a degenerative spinal condition that has left him wheelchair-bound.
Atwood was co