He asked the Arizona Supreme Court in December to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than authorities were aiming for, saying this death sentence was "long overdue." ...

The media witnesses reported no visible problems with the execution. But Dale Baich, a former federal public defender who teaches death penalty law at Arizona State University and witnessed the ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A member of an Arizona prison gang will spend an additional four decades behind bars for ordering a man’s execution while he was already incarcerated for other crimes.

While courts have found death row inmates to be “competent” to maintain the right to expedite their own execution, some argue the legal bar to do so sits too low, especially amid a lack of information ...

Initially sentenced in 2007, Gunches has been on death row as his execution was postponed due to a review of Arizona’s death penalty procedures ordered by Governor Katie Hobbs. This review sparked ...