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Posted Jul 14, 2021, 3:44 pm
Brooke Newman
/Cronkite News
The state’s plan to execute two death-row inmates as early as this fall were derailed Monday when the Arizona Supreme Court ordered the state to first determine the viability of its execution drugs before pressing ahead.... Read more»
Posted May 19, 2021, 11:23 am
Brooke Newman & Alyssa Marksz /Cronkite News
The U.S. Supreme Court said it will consider whether two Arizona death-row inmates should get new hearings based on claims that attorneys who represented them decades ago failed to present evidence that could have spared them. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 8, 2021, 11:47 am
Haleigh Kochanski
/Cronkite News
While Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich is pushing to schedule executions for two death-row inmates who he said have exhausted their appeals, advocates for the men said they still intend to fight.... Read more»
Posted Apr 20, 2020, 12:16 pm
Hannah Foote
/Cronkite News
Public health officials who use certain “execution drugs” to treat COVID-19 patients face competition from states that use those drugs to end lives rather than save them. ... Read more»