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Supreme Court delays resolution over death penalty deadlines
Key Points: Court delays changing execution warrant briefing process until 2026 State seeks faster schedule, defense counsel warns of inadequate representation Court declines to adopt its compromise proposal, reopens petition […]
Arizona seeks to streamline execution process
Key Points: Attorney General seeks set execution briefing schedule to prevent drug expiration Defense counsel warns shorter timelines could harm capital defendants’ rights Arizona Supreme Court plans to review new […]
Arizona executes second death row inmate this year
Key Points: Department of Corrections executed death row inmate Richard Djerf Medical team ran into some difficulties inserting Djerf’s IV line Witnesses said process otherwise went smoothly The state executed […]
David Duncan: Behind the red tape of state-sanctioned death
Before his report was cut short by Gov. Katie Hobbs, David Duncan, a retired federal magistrate judge, poured over banker boxes of records, interviewed dozens of people at the many […]
Was Aaron Gunches execution a state-assisted suicide?
In between the setting of IV lines and the reading of his death warrant, Aaron Gunches uttered his — albeit unofficial — last words. “What’s the hold up?” He said […]
Aaron Brian Gunches executed by lethal injection
Kiera Riley, courts and education reporter for the Arizona Capitol Times, watched the execution of Aaron Gunches as his invited witness. From the front row in the far corner of […]
Lawmaker proposes executions by firing squad
Calling the current system inhumane and problematic, a state lawmaker wants to give voters the chance to replace the current method of killing convicted murderers with the firing squad.
Court won’t order execution of Gunches
What started as Aaron Gunches' wish for his own execution has slowly swirled into a loaded political microcosm, pulling top state officials, multiple Corrections administrations and justice groups into its orbit.
Hobbs blasted for plans to defy execution order
Gov. Katie Hobbs is facing heavy pushback from a victim's sister and a powerful county prosecutor for her plans to defy a court order to execute a prisoner next month for his conviction in a 2002 killing.
State won’t carry out execution after warrant issued
Arizona won’t execute the state’s only inmate on death row even after the Arizona Supreme Court issued a death warrant in the case, Gov. Katie Hobbs said on Friday.
Arizona’s death penalty is cruel and unusual; it’s time to abolish it
It’s time to abolish Arizona’s death penalty, once and for all.
Arizona court OKs execution request that AG tried to undo
The Arizona Supreme Court issued a warrant to execute a prisoner even though the state's new Democratic attorney general tried to withdraw her Republican predecessor's request to carry out the execution.
