death penalty

The Arizona Supreme Court declined Wednesday to reschedule an execution initially set for this week that looked unlikely to be carried out after Gov. Katie Hobbs’ office said the state wasn’t prepared to enforce the death penalty.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has been ordered to appear in court Thursday in her efforts to halt pending executions.

A vow by Arizona’s governor not to proceed with any executions amid lingering questions about the rights of death row inmates appears to have paused a scheduled execution next week.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs says corrections officials won't carry out an execution even though the state Supreme Court scheduled it over the objections of the state’s new attorney general.

Gov. Katie Hobbs has appointed a retired federal magistrate judge as part of an examination of the procurement of lethal injection drugs and other death penalty protocols in the state.

An annual report on capital punishment says public support and use of the death penalty continued a more than two-decade decline in the U.S. in 2022.

The Arizona Attorney General’s Office has requested the state Supreme Court issue a warrant of execution for death row inmate Aaron Gunches.

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 eight-year hiatus.

An Arizona prisoner who is scheduled to be executed in three weeks for two 1980 killings will be put to death by lethal injection, not gas, on Nov. 16.

The planned execution of an Arizona prisoner remains on track after a judge rejected his request to have fingerprint and DNA tests conducted on evidence from the two 1980 killings.