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Associated Press - March 19, 2009 3:14 AM ET
PHOENIX (AP) - The Arizona Supreme Court has denied a request from the state to set an execution date for a convicted murderer who's been on death row for 20 years.
The Arizona Attorney General's Office petitioned the state Supreme Court for a death warrant for Daniel Wayne Cook for killing two men in Lake Havasu City in 1987.
But an order signed Tuesday by Arizona Chief Justice Ruth McGregor instead postponed the court ruling for 14 days to give Cook's attorneys time to file motions in Maricopa County Superior Court challenging the state's method of administering the death penalty.
The 47-year-old Cook would join eight other condemned Arizona prisoners who are contesting the state's lethal injection.
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