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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.
It is a serious mistake for Arizona to restart the machinery of death and for other states to cling to capital punishment.
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]
On October 20, 2009, Almaleki was assisting her boyfriend's mother with translation [1] at an office of the Arizona Department of Economic Security, [7] [8] in Peoria. Outside the office, Faleh struck them with his vehicle. [9] As a result, Almaleki suffered bleeding in her brain and other injuries, though the skull never fractured.
President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will direct the Department of Justice to “vigorously pursue the death penalty” after President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the death sentences ...
A Peoria man was found guilty of first-degree murder Thursday in the 2021 shooting death of a ... 2800 block of North Linn Street in the early hours of Oct. 6, 2021. Prosecutors also had GPS ...
In the state of Arizona, if one is found guilty of first-degree murder, there is the possibility of receiving the death penalty. [ 1 ] The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that in the year 2020, the state had a murder rate near the median for the entire country.
Texas has executed the most inmates of any other state in the nation, and it's not even close. The Lone Star state has put 591 inmates to death since 1982, most recently Garcia Glen White on Oct. 1.