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Death row inmates who have exhausted their appeals by county. An inmate is considered to have exhausted their appeals if their sentence has fully withstood the appellate process; this involves either the individual's conviction and death sentence withstanding each stage of the appellate process or them waiving a part of the appellate process if a court has found them competent to do so.
Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arizona. 95 executions have been carried out since Arizona became a state in 1914 and there are currently 111 people on death row. In November 2024, Attorney General Kris Mayes announced that the state would resume executions in 2025 after a 2-year pause.
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Arizona since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. A total of 40 people, all male, have been executed in Arizona. All of them were convicted of murder and were executed at the Florence State Prison in Florence, Arizona. [1]
Arizona has 111 inmates on death row, but last carried out death sentences in 2022, when three inmates were put to death, after a nearly eight-year pause sparked by criticism that a 2014 execution ...
An Arizona death row inmate whose convictions and death sentence in the 1994 death of a 4-year-old were thrown out was released from prison Thursday. Barry Lee Jones had spent 29 years behind bars ...
Aaron Brian Gunches (born June 30, 1971) [1] is an American prisoner on death row at Arizona State Prison in Florence, Arizona, after being convicted for the 2002 murder of Ted Price. Gunches has attracted notoriety for repeatedly requesting his own execution and criticizing the state of Arizona for not doing so.
On appeal in 2018, the Arizona Supreme Court upheld the death sentence. [5] It was then appealed to the United States Supreme Court over disagreements on whether a judge or jury should resentence the defendant. [4] [6] As of April 2021, both McKinney and Hedlund are among 20 Arizona death row inmates who have exhausted all their appeals. [7]
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