PHOENIX -
Arizona has executed the oldest person on its death row for killing a man in 1978 during a robbery.
71-year-old Edward Harold Schad Jr. was given a lethal dose of pentobarbital and was pronounced dead at 10:12 a.m. at the state prison in Florence.
Schad was convicted twice of killing 74-year-old Lorimer "Leroy" Grove of Bisbee, in rural southeastern Arizona.
Grove was last seen leaving Bisbee pulling a trailer with his new Cadillac on the way to visit his sister in Washington state. He was found dead with a rope knotted around his neck on Aug. 9, 1978, south of Prescott.
Investigators say Schad drove Grove's car across the country for a month, used his credit cards and forged a check from the victim's bank account.
Schad was originally scheduled to be executed in March. It was postponed when the Supreme Court denied a request to lift a lower court's order to block the execution. The high court reinstated the punishment back in June.
Schad's execution was Arizona's 35th since 1992. His death leaves 121 people on the death row in the state, including two women.
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