Adwood had been sentenced to death for abduction and murder of an 8-year-old Vicky Lynn Hoskinson This makes it a perfect choice for people with diabetes and for those who want to lose weight or follow a balanced diet. 1984. His execution comes almost a month after the execution of the death row inmate Clarence Dixon, the first to take place since 2014.
Adwood was the 39th in turn death row inmate who has been executed in the state of Arizona since 1992. He himself, twenty-four hours before his death, became an orthodox monk under the name Ephraim. In recent years he had embraced Orthodox Christian teaching and was in constant contact with the metropolitans of Limassol and Nafpaktos.
The 66-year-old claimed for years that he was innocent and that he had nothing to do with the crime he was charged with.
Shortly before his execution, Adwood chose to make one final statement. According to Frank Stranda, director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, this was his final statement:
"Thank you, dear father, for coming today and shepherding me in the faith. I want to thank my beautiful wife who loved me with what she had and did not have. I want to thank my friends and my legal team and above all Jesus Christ through this unjust trial that led to my salvation. I pray that the Lord will have mercy on us all and that the Lord will have mercy on me. "
"Thank you, dear father, for coming today and shepherding me in the faith. I want to thank my beautiful wife who loved me with what she had and did not have. I want to thank my friends and my legal team and above all Jesus Christ through this unjust trial that led to my salvation. I pray that the Lord will have mercy on us all and that the Lord will have mercy on me. "
In his last message to his supporters on June 2, he wrote:
"My name is Frank Adwood and I am going to be executed by the State of Arizona at 10:00 a.m. (GR & CY 8:00 pm), June 8, 2022. I am doomed to die for a crime I did not commit, but I will let the evidence backed by the experts and the arguments put forward by my lawyers speak to my innocence.
I will finally free myself from the earthly bonds that have crippled my body and are causing me excruciating pain. And I will no longer live in a world where others suffer from my own existence.
To Vicky Lynn Hoskinson's family, I can honestly say that while I know you will never believe I did not kidnap her, I did not! This, however, does not change the fact that your pain is as real as it can be with anything else in this life, and my deepest prayer is that my death will give you and your loved ones some form of relief and finally to your endless misery and martyrdom ".
Ο Adwood had applied for a pardon in May, insisting on his innocence and saying at every opportunity that he would never go so far as to kidnap and kill the 8-year-old girl. However, his request was ultimately rejected by the American Justice, which led to the issuance of a decision for his execution, with lethal injection.
Debbie Carlson, the mother of 8-year-old Vicky Lynn, told Atwood a pardon hearing in May that his execution would bring final justice to her daughter and mark a new beginning for her family.
"We chose the death penalty because we never wanted another child to face this monster. "We wanted to make sure that another family would be spared and would not have to live what we have lived for the last 37 1/2 years," Ms Carlson said at the time.
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