Arizona Executes Man for 1993 Murders of Four Family Members

A man convicted of murdering four members of a Phoenix family in 1993 was executed by lethal injection in Arizona on Friday. Richard Kenneth Djerf, who did not seek clemency, committed the killings in a revenge plot over stolen goods and had been imprisoned for over 29 years; his execution marks the state’s second of the year.

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