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TweetPinSharePhoto Courtesy Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry: After an eight-year hiatus, Arizona executed three inmates by lethal injection in 2022. Last Thursday, the Arizona Supreme Court set an …
Hobbs says the state will not proceed for now with court-ordered execution Read More
TweetPinShareContributed Photo: From left, Cassandra Johnson relaxes with her uncle, Rickey Krebs, after saving his life last month. By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com GRAHAM COUNTY – It happened in just a …
DOC officer credits training in saving her uncle’s life Read More
TweetPinShareASPC-Safford Contributed Article/Courtesy ADCRR PHOENIX – The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry has fully vaccinated more than 80% of its inmate population against the COVID-19 virus. Among the …
Department of Corrections vaccinates more than 80% of its inmate population Read More
TweetPinShareFile Photo/Cronkite News: Arizona has not carried out an execution since 2014, when a lethal injection went wrong, and has not used the gas chamber since 1999. But the state …
Arizona plans to use gas chamber again, sparking revulsion, disbelief Read More
TweetPinShareBy Haleigh Kochanski/Cronkite News Photo By Tim Evanson/Creative Commons: A federal appeals court upheld death-row inmate Robert Lee Walden’s convictions in the rapes of three Tucson women within weeks of each …
Court rejects death-row inmate’s appeal in 1991 Tucson rapes, murder Read More
TweetPinShareFile Photo By Miranda Faulkner/Cronkite News: Death penalty opponents demonstrate outside the Supreme Court. By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com PHOENIX – After a six-year hiatus, the state of Arizona is preparing …
Arizona preparing to carry out death sentences Read More