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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.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Arizona.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 141 law enforcement agencies employing 14,591 sworn police officers, about 224 for each 100,000 residents.
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]
Ehrenberg is located in western La Paz County and is located on the Colorado River, which forms the border between Arizona and California. The community is along Interstate 10 , which leads east 145 miles (233 km) to Phoenix and west 100 miles (160 km) to Indio, California .
Arizona: Lethal injection Profile: 5 March 20, 2025 Wendell Arden Grissom: 56 37 19 Oklahoma: Profile: 6 Edward Thomas James: 63 32 31 Florida: Profile: 7 April 23, 2025 Moises Sandoval Mendoza: 41 20 21 Hispanic Texas Profile: 8 May 20, 2025 Matthew Lee Johnson: 49 36 13 Black Profile: 9 May 22, 2025 Oscar Franklin Smith: 74 39 36 White Tennessee
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.
Three states abolished the death penalty for murder during the 19th century: Michigan (which Only executed 1 prisoner and is the first government in the English-speaking world to abolish capital punishment) [44] in 1847, Wisconsin in 1853, and Maine in 1887.
Arizona abolished all common law criminal concepts and replaced them with criminal statutes. [3] The felony murder rule survives in Arizona by current statutory law. The felony murder rule holds that a killing of a person occurring in the course of, or in the immediate flight from, the commission of the following crimes is considered murder in the first degree: [4]