Arizona prepares to execute death row inmates with gas Nazis used
3 years, 9 months ago

Arizona prepares to execute death row inmates with gas Nazis used

Al Jazeera  

After suspending executions due to a botched lethal injection in 2014, Arizona now has 115 inmates awaiting execution. State records reported by The Guardian show the Arizona prison system tested the operation of the gas chamber and officials produced detailed procedures for its use, prompting an outcry from opponents of the death penalty. A petition circulated on May 31 by opponents of the death penalty called on Arizona Governor Doug Ducey to reject use of the gas chamber and to halt all executions. https://t.co/20H0NUjrzi #Arizona #StopExecutions @TheRAC @uriltzedek @truahrabbis — Death Penalty Action June 1, 2021 “You have to wonder what Arizona was thinking in believing that in 2021 it is acceptable to execute people in a gas chamber with cyanide gas,” Robert Dunham, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told The Guardian. Arizona state law allows convicts sentenced to death to choose between the gas chamber or lethal injection.

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Arizona set to execute first death row prisoner in over two years
1 week, 6 days ago

Arizona set to execute first death row prisoner in over two years

India Today  

An Arizona man who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder was scheduled to be executed Wednesday in the state’s first use of the death penalty in more than two years. Late last year, Hobbs fired the retired judge she had appointed to conduct the review, and the state’s corrections department announced changes in the team that lethally injects death row prisoners. …

An Arizona prisoner whose execution is coming up isn’t asking for a reprieve
3 weeks, 1 day ago

An Arizona prisoner whose execution is coming up isn’t asking for a reprieve

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — A prisoner scheduled to be executed next week in what would be Arizona’s first use of the death penalty in over two years will not ask for a reprieve from his death sentence. The Arizona Supreme Court issued a death warrant for Gunches nearly two years ago, but the sentence wasn’t carried out because the state’s Democratic attorney …

Arizona to execute first death row inmate in two years
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Arizona to execute first death row inmate in two years

The Independent  

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Arizona executions on hold amid review ordered by governor
2 years, 2 months ago

Arizona executions on hold amid review ordered by governor

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Arizona’s attorney general has put a hold on executions in the state until the completion of a review of death penalty protocols ordered by the new governor due to the state’s history of mismanaging executions. Katie Hobbs, Arizona’s first Democratic governor since 2009, came as the state’s new Democratic attorney general, Kris Mayes, withdrew her Republican predecessor’s request …

Arizona prisoner to die by lethal injection, not gas chamber
2 years, 5 months ago

Arizona prisoner to die by lethal injection, not gas chamber

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — An Arizona prisoner who is scheduled to be executed in three weeks for two 1980 killings will be put to death by lethal injection, making him the third condemned person to decline lethal gas since the state refurbished the chamber where it carried out the last U.S. execution by gas more than 20 years ago. Attorneys for Murray …

Arizona prisoner to die by lethal injection, not gas chamber
2 years, 5 months ago

Arizona prisoner to die by lethal injection, not gas chamber

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy An Arizona prisoner who is …

Arizona prisoner won’t be executed in gas chamber
2 years, 10 months ago

Arizona prisoner won’t be executed in gas chamber

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — An Arizona prisoner is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in less than three weeks for killing an 8-year-old girl, marking the second condemned man to decline lethal gas since the state refurbished its gas chamber — a method of execution that hasn’t been used in the United States in more than 20 years. Death penalty experts …

Arizona death-row prisoner won’t be executed in gas chamber
2 years, 11 months ago

Arizona death-row prisoner won’t be executed in gas chamber

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — A prisoner scheduled to be executed in three weeks in what would be Arizona’s first use of the death penalty in nearly eight years will die by lethal injection and not in the gas chamber — a method that hasn’t been used in the United States in more than two decades. Clarence Dixon declined to pick a method …

Arizona death-row prisoner won’t be executed in gas chamber
2 years, 11 months ago

Arizona death-row prisoner won’t be executed in gas chamber

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A prisoner scheduled to be …

Arizona seeks to resume executions after 7-year hiatus
3 years, 1 month ago

Arizona seeks to resume executions after 7-year hiatus

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Prosecutors on Thursday asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue an execution warrant for a convicted killer that if carried out would be the state’s first use of the death penalty in seven years. Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s office filed the request for a warrant of execution against Clarence Dixon, who was convicted and sentenced to death in …

Arizona secretly refurbishes its GAS CHAMBER for death row inmates
3 years, 9 months ago

Arizona secretly refurbishes its GAS CHAMBER for death row inmates

Daily Mail  

Arizona has secretly refurbished its gas chamber as it plans to execute death row inmates using the same pesticide the Nazis used to kill 865,000 Jews at Auschwitz. No one has been executed by gas chamber in Arizona - or nationwide - in more than two decades when convicted killer Walter LaGrand was put to death in the state's facility …

Arizona refurbishes gas chamber in push to resume executions
3 years, 9 months ago

Arizona refurbishes gas chamber in push to resume executions

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — As it aims to resume executions after a seven-year hiatus, Arizona has refurbished its gas chamber, where the nation’s last lethal-gas execution was carried out more than two decades ago before the United States rejected the brutal nature of the deaths. The state corrections department said in a statement that it’s “prepared to fulfill its constitutional obligations, carry …

Judge: Arizona doesn’t have to reveal execution drug sources
7 years, 6 months ago

Judge: Arizona doesn’t have to reveal execution drug sources

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Arizona does not have to reveal who provides its execution drugs, a judge ruled Thursday in a lawsuit arguing that the information would help the public determine whether the death penalty is carried out humanely and promote confidence in the criminal justice system. U.S. District Judge Murray Snow ruled that the media outlets didn’t show they had a …

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