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Mayes files suit against makers, distributors of insulin accusing them of price hike conspiracies
Attorney General Kris Mayes filed suit Monday against manufacturers and distributors of insulin accusing them of conspiring to raise prices and keep them high.
State taking initial steps to explore possibly legalizing use of certain mushrooms
It won't make Arizona into Colorado or Oregon. And whatever happens will take years. But the state is taking the first steps to what could be legalizing the use of certain mushrooms -- and, specifically psiolocybin -- for use, at least for some people.
Homicide charge is not a solution to drug use
There is a bill currently under serious consideration at the Arizona Legislature that would shift Arizona’s overdose crisis into overdrive. HB2021 threatens people who suffer from substance-use disorder with homicide... […]
Letter to the Editor: Doctors offer further suggestions to prevent prescription drug abuse
Letter to the Editor: Doctors offer further suggestions to prevent prescription drug abuse
Wood given 15 doses of lethal drugs during two-hour execution in Arizona
An execution team violated state execution policy by injecting Joseph Wood with 15 doses of a lethal drug combination, the inmate’s attorney said.
Doctor says Wood may have sensed he was suffocating
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.
AP reporter’s account of Arizona execution
Joseph Rudolph Wood looked around the death chamber and glanced at the people making preparation for his execution, locating the proper veins and inserting two lines into his arms.
Brewer orders full review of state’s execution process, but says inmate died in a ‘lawful manner’
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 high court allows execution to proceed
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 high court delays planned execution
Arizona's highest court has temporarily halted the execution of a condemned inmate as it considers a last-minute appeal.
Supreme Court allows Arizona execution to proceed
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.
Arizona execution drug case heads to Supreme Court
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.
