Seven times in two hours a masked medical doctor stood over inmate Joseph Wood with his back to the execution witnesses. The unknown doctor was touching Wood’s eye with a cotton swab and sticking a tongue depressor down his throat to look for reactions that come with consciousness.

The doctor who did the autopsy on executed inmate Joseph Wood said today he found nothing out of the ordinary for an execution during the examination.

A condemned Arizona inmate gasped and snorted for more than an hour and a half during his execution Wednesday before he died, his lawyers said, in an episode sure to add to the scrutiny surrounding the death penalty in the U.S.

Arizona's highest court is allowing the execution of a condemned inmate to proceed after considering a last-minute appeal that put his lethal injection on hold.

Arizona's highest court has temporarily halted the execution of a condemned inmate as it considers a last-minute appeal.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed an Arizona execution to go forward amid a closely watched First Amendment fight over the secrecy surrounding lethal injection drugs in the country.

A case challenging Arizona's refusal to reveal detailed information about the lethal combination it will use to put an inmate to death is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A judge granted a request for a temporary restraining order Wednesday to stop the demolition of a historic building at the Arizona State Fairgrounds that played a key role in the implementation of the New Deal in the state during the Great Depression.

A court ruling has cleared the District 20 GOP primary for Sen. Kimberly Yee, R-Phoenix.

The Arizona Court of Appeals today upheld a lower-court decision banning flesh-eating fish in pedicures, finding that using them could be unsanitary.