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» 
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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»
The Arizona Department of Corrections said it has found a compound pharmacist it needs to carry out the state's first execution in six years. Read more»
Federal renewal of the state's license to import pentobarbital comes just six weeks after Arizona executed Joseph Wood Jr. using a different set of drugs, in a process that took two hours and left Wood gasping for air. This approval is just one step in a long process to import the drug. Read more» 1
A federal judge's decision to block imports of a drug used in executions will leave states to rely more on a substitute drug that could itself be getting scarce. Read more»
Texas, the state that led America in the largest number of executions last year, might be running out of the lethal drug used to administer the death penalty. Read more»
