lethal injection

Newly-elected Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs today announced an executive order to establish a Death Penalty Independent Review Commissioner to oversee the state's execution procedures.

An Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1980 killings of two people is scheduled to be executed Wednesday in what would be the state’s third execution since officials started carrying out the death penalty in May after a nearly eight-year hiatus.

Plans to execute an Arizona man for two killings in 1980 remain on track after a judge denied the inmate’s bid to postpone a scheduled lethal injection.

An Arizona prisoner is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on June 8 for killing an 8-year-old girl.

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

A federal judge has refused to halt an Arizona execution planned for Wednesday, May 11, after the state provided attorneys for convicted killer Clarence Dixon with documents outlining testing done on the drug it will use.

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.

A federal judge in Phoenix on Wednesday said the state of Arizona must allow witnesses to view the entirety of an execution, including each time drugs are…