updated 12/5/2012 1:53:30 PM ET 2012-12-05T18:53:30

PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona man convicted of kidnapping, raping and murdering two 13-year-old girls in 1991 and tossing their bodies down an abandoned mineshaft was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday.

Richard Dale Stokley, 60, was pronounced dead at 11:12 a.m. Mountain Time at the state prison in Florence, Arizona, about 60 miles southeast of Phoenix, state officials said

(Reporting by David Schwartz; Editing by Tim Gaynor and Stacey Joyce)

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