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While the Supreme Court took the rare step with Lynch of issuing a summary reversal to force Arizona's compliance with Simmons, about 30 prisoners have still been denied this right.

Supreme Court eviscerates Arizona on death penalty scheme

Feb 23, 2023 ◇ Barbara Leonard/Courthouse News Service

The Supreme Court awarded postconviction relief to a man on death row for killing a police officer after Arizona courts kept jurors in the dark about its policy of denying parole to anyone sentenced to life in prison - despite the fact the court called the policy unconstitutional in 2016. Read more»

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Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich outside the Supreme Court with Chief Deputy Attorney General Joseph Kanefield, who argued for the state in Cruz v. Arizona. The case involved a death-row inmate seeking a new sentencing hearing in the 2003 killing of a Tucson police officer.

Man on Arizona death row has Supreme Court justices splitting hairs

Nov 2, 2022 ◇ Tori Gantz/Cronkite News

Supreme Court justices challenged Arizona’s claim Tuesday that a death row inmate should not get a chance to appeal his sentence, based on what one justice called a “Kafkaesque” ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court. Read more»

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