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Correction: Death-Penalty-Arizona story

May 11, 2022, 10:06 PM | Updated: May 12, 2022, 5:52 pm

Leslie Bowdoin James, sister of Deana Lynne Bowdoin talks to the media on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, ...

Leslie Bowdoin James, sister of Deana Lynne Bowdoin talks to the media on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, in Florence, Ariz. Inmate Clarence Dixon was put to death by lethal injection earlier Wednesday inside the state prison for his murder conviction in the killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin in 1978. Dixon was the first person to be executed in the state after a nearly eight-year hiatus in its use of the death penalty. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

(AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

PHOENIX (AP) — In a story published May 11, 2022, about the execution of an Arizona inmate, The Associated Press erroneously reported the last name of the prisoner. He is Clarence Dixon, not Clarence Davis.

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Correction: Death-Penalty-Arizona story