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Another chapter in Arizona’s off-again, on-again death penalty history occurred between 1962 and 1992 when no executions were performed. All told, 143 people have been put to death in the state ...
Plans to execute an Arizona man on Wednesday remain on track after a judge refused to postpone the lethal injection, rejecting a bid to allow fingerprint and DNA testing on evidence from two 1980s ...
An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 is scheduled to become the first person to be executed in the state after a nearly eight-year hiatus in its use of the death penalty.
PHOENIX (AP) — Executions will resume in Arizona following a two-year pause, the state's top prosecutor says. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement sent to The Associated Press on Wednesday that she will soon seek an execution warrant for Aaron Brian Gunches, who is on death row after being convicted of killing his girlfriend's ex-husband.
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]
Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) – The death penalty is unconstitutional for a person who is a minor participant in a felony and does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend to kill. Tison v. Arizona , 481 U.S. 137 (1987) – Death penalty may be imposed on a felony-murder defendant who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibits ...
McCall, Bracy, and Hooper were all sentenced to death for their roles in the murders. [1] Cruz was murdered two years after his acquittal and McCall and Bracy both died on death row before their executions could be carried out. [9] [10] Hooper was executed in 2022 via lethal injection and remains the state of Arizona's most recent execution.
The planned execution of an Arizona man remained on track Monday after two last-minute court efforts ended without decisions that would sidetrack the state from putting 66-year-old Clarence Dixon ...