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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 ...
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.
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 ...
An Arizona man convicted of murdering two people in 1980 was put to death Wednesday in the state’s third execution since officials started carrying out the death penalty in May after a nearly ...
On May 3, 2022, the Arizona Supreme Court set an execution date for Atwood for June 8, 2022. Clemency was unanimously rejected on May 24, 2022. [16] Atwood was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence, Arizona, on June 8, 2022. In his last statement, Atwood maintained his innocence and did not apologize to the family of ...
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. His scheduled execution on April 6, 2023 was deferred.
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 ...
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]