executions

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.

Aaron Gunches cited three recent executions that were “carried out in a matter that amounts to torture” and the recent election of new Attorney General Kris Mayes in his request.

Aaron Gunches has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue a death warrant, "so that justice may be lawfully served and give closure to the victim's family."

The Arizona Attorney General's Office has filed a motion with the state supreme court for a warrant of execution for 76-year-old Murray Hooper.

An Arizona man convicted in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl was put to death Wednesday. It was the state’s second execution this year since officials started carrying out the death penalty again after a nearly eight-year hiatus.

Death penalty experts say Wednesday's lethal-injection execution of convicted murderer Clarence Dixon took too long to carry out.

An Arizona man convicted of killing a college student in 1978 has been executed after a nearly eight-year hiatus in the state’s use of the death penalty.

A federal judge has rejected a request to postpone the planned execution of an Arizona prisoner on Wednesday in what would be the state’s first use of the death penalty in nearly eight years.

Arizona remains on schedule, at least for now, to use the death penalty for the first time in nearly eight years.

The Arizona Supreme Court issued an execution warrant last week for a death-row prisoner in what would be the state’s first use of the death penalty in nearly eight years. The state’s highest court set a May 11 execution date for Clarence Dixon, who was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1977 killing of a college student.