PHOENIX - The Arizona Supreme Court has granted a motion for an execution warrant for a prison inmate who's been on death row since 1985.
There was no immediate word Tuesday from the Arizona Attorney General's Office about an execution date for 70-year-old Edward Harold Schad.
Schad's attorneys asked the state's high court to deny the execution warrant request or at least delay ruling on it.
They say Schad still has a motion for a rehearing of his case before the U.S. Supreme Court and there are questions about the constitutionality of Arizona's lethal-injection procedure.
Schad was convicted in the killing of 74-year-old Lorimer "Leroy" Graves of Bisbee. His strangled body was found south of Prescott in August 1978.
Schad was later arrested in New York, driving the victim's new car.
