UPDATE: The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry declared Dixon deceased at 10:30 a.m.
The mode and manner of the death reported by the department was lethal injection.
Original story:
An Arizona prisoner became the first person executed in the state in eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last minute appeal to halt his death by lethal injection.
The court issued its decision one hour before Clarence Dixon's execution Wednesday morning for the killing of a college student in 1978.
Dixon was executed at the state prison in Florence for his murder conviction in the killing of 21-year-old Arizona State University student Deana Bowdoin.
His lawyers unsuccessfully argued that Dixon wasn’t mentally fit to be put to death.
RELATED : Clarence Dixon, lethal injection and Arizona's history of execution
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