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FDA agrees to hear from Texas, Arizona on seized drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration agreed to hear from Texas and Arizona prison officials after agents seized drugs the states were trying to import for use in executions.
Documents: Arizona tried to illegally import execution drug
Arizona tried to illegally import a lethal injection drug that's not approved in the U.S. but never obtained it after federal agents stopped the shipment at the Phoenix airport, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
State Supreme Court to consider death penalty challenge
The Arizona Supreme Court is going to consider on Oct. 27 a case in which a Phoenix man accused of murder is challenging the state’s death penalty laws as too broad.
Court OKs drug use in executions, but lawyer says that could change
Although the U.S. Supreme Court on June 20 approved the use of the sedative midazolam in executions, an attorney for Arizona death-row prisoners said the issue of whether use of the drug is constitutional isn’t completely settled.
Supreme Court debates challenge to execution drug
Supreme Court justices engaged in an impassioned debate Wednesday about capital punishment, trading unusually combative words in a case involving a drug used in several botched executions.
Court considering challenge to Arizona’s death penalty law
Death penalty opponents have filed a court challenge seeking to stop executions in Arizona on the grounds that state law is unconstitutionally arbitrary.
Traffic accident 30 years ago could spare inmate the death penalty
A man who killed two others in a 1989 Tucson drug ripoff will get a chance to escape being executed. In a split decision on Dec. 29, the majority of a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the attorney for Eric Owen Mann failed to investigate the effects that a 1985 traffic accident might have had on him.
Judge grants stay on Arizona execution suit
It could be months before Arizona officials seek execution warrants for death-row inmates after a judge granted a joint request by the state and defense attorneys.
Report on Wood execution due by mid-November
An independent investigation of the nearly two-hour execution of an Arizona death row inmate is expected to be completed in the next two weeks, attorneys representing the state said Wednesday.
Arizona to resume executions using mix of painkiller and sedative
The Arizona Department of Corrections is going to resume executions by using a secret pharmacy to mix a drug combination that left an Ohio prisoner choking and snorting for 19 minutes as he died in January.
Prosecutor wants executions for human smugglers
Pinal County Attorney Lando Voyles wants to add human smugglers who kill to the categories that qualify someone for death row.
He also wants to add people who the state can prove will likely kill again.
AG Horne wants speedier death penalty appeals
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne wants a court to force the Justice Department to act on his request to fast-track federal death penalty appeals in Arizona cases.
