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Arizona inmate granted temporary stay of execution
The Arizona Supreme Court has halted the planned execution of inmate Donald Beaty, who was scheduled to be given a lethal injection Wednesday morning for the rape and murder of a 13-year-old Tempe girl in 1984.
Arizona death-row inmate execution set for May 25
The Arizona Supreme Court has agreed to issue an execution warrant for a man who has been on death row since 1985 for raping and suffocating a 13-year-old girl in Tempe.
U.S. Supreme Court grants execution stay for Ariz. inmate
The U.S. Supreme Court granted a stay of execution for an Arizona death-row inmate Monday, less than 24 hours before he was scheduled to die by injection for the gruesome 1987 killings of a man and a teenage boy after he tortured and raped them for hours.
Lawyers for Arizona death row inmate seeking stay
Lawyers for an Arizona death row inmate filed motions Saturday asking the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appeals court to stay his scheduled execution next week.
Arizona inmate executed amid questions over drug
A man convicted of killing two people in a 1989 Phoenix convenience store robbery was executed Tuesday despite last-minute arguments by his attorneys who raised questions over one of the lethal injection drugs and said there was "substantial doubt" about his guilt.
US Supreme Court denies Ariz. execution stay
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday declined to stop the execution of an Arizona death-row inmate hours before he was set to die by lethal injection for killing two people in a 1989 convenience store robbery.
FDA helps states get execution drug
The Food and Drug Administration, which has long maintained that it has nothing to do with drugs used in executions, has quietly helped Arizona and California obtain a scarce type of anesthetic so the states could continue putting inmates to death.
UK company supplied execution drugs to Arizona
A British company supplied the three drugs used to execute death-row inmates to a prison in Arizona, anti-death penalty advocates said Thursday.
UpClose with Dale Baich: Public defender talks death penalty, sodium thiopental and Jeffrey Landrigan
Dale Baich knows about life on death row – for the past 15 years, he has been defending Arizona’s death-row inmates in federal court.
Arizona court orders briefing on execution motion
The Arizona Supreme Court wants the state to respond to legal briefs filed on behalf of a death row inmate before the justices decide whether to order his execution.
State goes overseas for lethal injection drug
The state attorney general's office said Tuesday that Arizona's supply of a drug used in lethal injections came from England, marking the first time a state has acknowledged obtaining sodium thiopental from an overseas source since a shortage of the drug started affecting executions in the U.S. this year.
AZ execution scheduled for 10 am remains on hold
Arizona inmate Jeffrey Landrigan was scheduled to die at 10 a.m. Arizona time Tuesday.
