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Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the U.S. state of Arizona.After the execution of Joseph Wood in 2014, executions were temporarily suspended but resumed in 2022. [1] [2] On January 23, 2023, newly inaugurated governor Katie Hobbs ordered a review of death penalty protocols and in light of that, newly inaugurated attorney general Kris Mayes issued a hold on any executions in the state.
Tison v. Arizona, 481 U.S. 137 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court qualified the rule it set forth in Enmund v. Florida (1982). Just as in Enmund, in Tison the Court applied the proportionality principle to conclude that the death penalty was an appropriate punishment for a felony murderer who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibited a ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Arizona since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. A total of 40 people, all male, have been executed in Arizona. All of them were convicted of murder and were executed at the Florence State Prison in Florence, Arizona. [1]
FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona man convicted of murder in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl was put to death Wednesday in the state’s second execution since officials resumed carrying ...
Murder of Dale Harrell. The murder of Dale Harrell (December 18, 1974 – February 9, 2009) occurred after he was fatally attacked on January 14, 2009, by his wife Marissa-Suzanne "Reese" DeVault (born November 6, 1977) in Maricopa County, Arizona. [ 1] Her trial made national and global headlines. The case was noted as being very similar to ...
Wendi Elizabeth Andriano (née Ochoa; born August 6, 1970) [1] is an American female prisoner on death row in Arizona. She was convicted of the 2000 murder of her terminally ill husband, Joe. She is incarcerated at the Lumley Unit in the Arizona State Prison Complex - Perryville. Her inmate number is #191593. [2]
Victims. Ted Price. Imprisoned at. Arizona State Prison Complex – Eyman. Aaron Brian Gunches (born June 30, 1971) [ 1] is an American prisoner on death row at Arizona State Prison in Florence, Arizona, after being convicted for the 2002 murder of Ted Price. His scheduled execution on April 6, 2023 was deferred. Further court action is pending.
The 1977 Arizona armored car robbery was an armed robbery of an armored car that took place along Interstate 17 in which the two guards of the car were murdered. The robbery was committed by brothers Michael Kent Poland and Patrick Gene Poland. [ 1] Both brothers were eventually executed for their parts in the crime, becoming one of two sets of ...