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TweetPinSharePhoto Courtesy ADOCCR: Former Death Row inmate Paul Speer when he was first incarcerated, left, and his last prison photo before he hanged himself to death on Aug. 31. Staff …
Death Row inmate hangs self Read More
TweetPinShareFile photo by Haley Smilow/Cronkite News: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Danny Lee Jones, on Arizona death row since 1993, won’t be resentenced despite claims his lawyer didn’t …
Supreme Court dashes Arizona death row inmate’s hope to avoid death penalty in 1992 double murder Read More TweetPinShareFile photo by Haley Smilow/Cronkite News: The Supreme Court was asked to determine if lower courts erred by failing to give proper weight to mitigating circumstances when they sentenced Danny Lee …
State asks Supreme Court to reject new trial for Arizona death row inmate Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto courtesy Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry: The Arizona Supreme Court has issued an execution warrant for Frank Jarvis Atwood, 66, who was found guilty of the 1984 …
Arizona Supreme Court issues execution warrant for Frank J. Atwood Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto courtesy Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry: Arizona has carried out most executions with lethal injection since 1992, but problems with a 2014 execution had halted them since …
State sets May execution, first since botched lethal injection in 2014 Read More
TweetPinSharePhoto courtesy Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry: Arizona has carried out most executions with lethal injection since 1992, although some death-row inmates have the choice of that or …
Arizona executions put on hold over state snafu with drugs to be used 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
TweetPinSharePhoto By Tim Evanson/Creative Commons: A federal appeals court overturned Barry Lee Jones’ conviction for the sexual assault and murder of a 4-year-old Tucson girl in 1994, saying his attorneys …
Death row sentence overturned after lawyers ‘dropped the ball’ in case Read More