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Murderer Clarence Dixon is scheduled to be executed today in Arizona for the brutal killing of Deana Bawdion, a 21-year-old Arizona State University co-ed.\u00a0 The New York Post reports<\/a> that, absent a last-minute stay, Dixon will be the first Arizona murderer put to death in almost eight years.\u00a0\u00a0 A 2019 Ninth Circuit opinion<\/a> upholding Dixon’s conviction and sentence indicated that he was living across the street from Bawdion on January 6, 1978 , when she returned from a local bar at 12.30 AM.\u00a0 At about 2:00 AM her boyfriend discovered her partially nude body on her bed.\u00a0 She had been stabbed several times and strangled with a belt.\u00a0 An autopsy revealed semen in her that could not be matched to any suspect at that time.\u00a0 In June of 1985 Dixon was convicted of aggravated assault, kidnapping, sexual abuse, and four counts of sexual assault of a Northern Arizona University student.\u00a0 He received a sentence of life in prison for those crimes.\u00a0 In 2001 a cold-case detective ran the DNA from the Bawdion murder through the FBI database and found a match to Dixon.\u00a0 After seven years of pre-trial maneuvers Dixon was finally tried and sentenced on January 15, 2008.\u00a0 It was noted at sentencing that the day before Deana Bawdion’s body was discovered, Dixon was released from custody after a court found him not guilty by reason of insanity for attacking a teen-aged girl with a metal pipe.\u00a0 His attorneys have unsuccessfully claimed he was mentally incompetent in the trials and appeals of the NAU co-ed rape and assault case and the Bawdion murder case.\u00a0 In last-minute appeals, they are still making that claim.\u00a0 UPDATE<\/strong>:\u00a0 Dixon was executed at 10:51 AM today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Murderer Clarence Dixon is scheduled to be executed today in Arizona for the brutal killing of Deana Bawdion, a 21-year-old Arizona State University co-ed.\u00a0 The New York Post reports that, absent a last-minute stay, Dixon will be the first Arizona murderer put to death in almost eight years.\u00a0\u00a0 A 2019 Ninth Circuit opinion upholding Dixon’s conviction and sentence indicated that he was living across the street from Bawdion on January 6, 1978 , when she returned from a local bar at 12.30 AM.\u00a0 At about 2:00 AM her boyfriend discovered her partially nude body on her bed.\u00a0 She had been stabbed several times and strangled with a belt.\u00a0 An autopsy revealed semen in her that could not be matched to any suspect at that time.\u00a0 In June of 1985 Dixon was convicted of aggravated assault, kidnapping, sexual abuse, and four counts of sexual assault of a Northern Arizona University student.\u00a0 He received a sentence of life in prison for those crimes.\u00a0 In 2001 a cold-case detective ran the DNA from the Bawdion murder through the FBI database and found a match to Dixon.\u00a0 After seven years of pre-trial maneuvers Dixon was finally tried and sentenced on January 15, 2008.\u00a0 It was noted at sentencing that the day before Deana Bawdion’s body was discovered, Dixon was released from custody after a court found him not guilty by reason of insanity for attacking a teen-aged girl with a metal pipe.\u00a0 His attorneys have unsuccessfully claimed he was mentally incompetent in the trials and appeals of the NAU co-ed rape and assault case and the Bawdion murder case.\u00a0 In last-minute appeals, they are still making that claim.\u00a0 UPDATE:\u00a0 Dixon was executed at 10:51 AM today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"\nArizona to Execute Murderer - 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