PHOENIX (AZFamily) — This week, the Pinal County attorney announced intentions to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing Apache Junction Police Officer Gabriel Facio. Even if the ...
Arizona executed Leroy Dean McGill for a 2002 murder, as questions remain over why death penalty appeals can take decades.
When the men who murdered Carmen Gayheart were sentenced to death in 1995, her sister, Maria David, thought it might be 12 or 14 years before they were executed. She waited 31. Life went on. David got ...
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This story is part of a series examining the death penalty in Texas. You can read more about the lives of death row inmates at the Polunsky Unit here and a first-person account from a reporter who ...
A condemned inmate is led to his cell in San Quentin’s death row on March 25, 2024. California is shutting down death row and transferring 471 condemned people out of the prison and into the general ...