FLORENCE, AZ (AP) -
A state board has unanimously denied clemency requests for an Arizona inmate facing execution Wednesday for two gruesome murders committed 25 years ago.
The Board of Executive Clemency voted 4-0 Friday against Daniel Wayne Cook's requests to have his death sentence reduced to life in prison or to delay his execution.
Cook was convicted of murdering 26-year-old Carlos Cruz-Ramos and 16-year-old Kevin Swaney in Lake Havasu City in 1987. Trial evidence showed Cruz-Ramos was tortured and that both victims were raped.
Cook's clemency petition said he was molested and beaten as a child and denied expert help to present sentencing evidence.
A federal appeals court ruled that Cook withheld evidence of possible mitigation circumstances. Cook represented himself during his trial.
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