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Appeals court refuses to block Arizona execution
An Arizona death-row inmate is asking the state Supreme Court to block his execution Wednesday so a lower court can consider whether the inmate's rights to a fair clemency hearing have been violated.
Attorney: Clemency Board appointments made illegally
The legal team for the next man scheduled to be executed in the state walked out of a clemency hearing today after alleging the Governor’s Office violated open meeting laws in appointing three new members to the Board of Executive Clemency.
Death-row inmate’s case before AZ clemency board
Arizona's largely new clemency board on Monday is expected to consider the case of a death-row inmate set for execution next week.
Executed inmate’s last words: ‘I regret nothing’
FLORENCE — An Arizona death-row inmate used his last words Wednesday to say he regretted nothing before he was given a lethal injection in what was the state's third execution this year.
US Supreme Court rejects appeal of Arizona inmate
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down the appeal of an Arizona inmate whose execution was stayed last year. Daniel Wayne Cook was scheduled to be executed April 5 for killing a man and a teenage boy in 1987 in Lake Havasu City.
Arizona inmate executed, state’s second in 8 days
FLORENCE — An Arizona inmate apologized to the family of the man he killed and his own family, said his life was one mistake after another and started crying before he was injected with a lethal drug Thursday.
Court warns Arizona about execution protocol
A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday issued a strong warning to Arizona officials who have continuously violated and changed their own written protocol for executing state death-row inmates.
Court records say executioner, Corrections director disregarded lethal injections procedures
Doses of three chemicals injected into Jeffrey Landrigan on Oct. 26, 2010, had done the job in executing him, but there was a set of unused, filled syringes left over.
Arizona high court refuses to block execution
The Arizona Supreme Court refused Monday to block an execution scheduled for Tuesday, turning away a constitutional challenge that included a claim by defense lawyers that more than one sedative was improperly used in a previous execution.
Inmate headed for execution to ask for mercy
An Arizona death-row inmate convicted of fatally beating a man is asking the state's clemency board for mercy.
Inmate asks US high court to block execution
Lawyers for an Arizona inmate are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block his execution scheduled Wednesday.
Court ruling upholds Arizona’s execution protocol
Arizona's protocol for three-drug injection executions has cleared another legal hurdle.
