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PHOENIX (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to postpone Tuesday's lethal injection of a man who has fought to drop his appeals and become the first inmate executed in Arizona in nearly seven years.
Robert Charles Comer was convicted in a 1987 crime spree in which he killed a fellow camper east of Phoenix. He also was convicted of repeatedly raping a female camper that night, once in front of her boyfriend.
Denise Young, Comer's former attorney, asked the Supreme Court last week to stay his execution. Kent Cattani of the state attorney general's office argued Young did not have the standing to ask for a stay of execution because she is not Comer's current lawyer.
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