4 d. ago Arizona’s execution pitted experts against politicians. Experts lost | Austin Sarat

The governor dismissed an ex-judge studying the death penalty in the state and failed to heed a leading voice on the matter. It’s no surpriseOn Wednesday, 19 March, Arizona executed Aaron Gunches by lethal injection. As ABC News reports, he was put to death for “kidnapping and killing 40-year-old Ted Price by shooting him four times in the Arizona desert”.Gunches’s case was unusual in many ways, not least that he stopped his legal appeals and volunteered to be executed, then changed his mind before changing it again. His execution was scheduled to be carried out almost two years ago. It was put on hold when the Arizona governor, Katie Hobbs, commissioned an independent review of the state’s death penalty procedures after a series of botched executions. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Florida man executed for raping and murdering girl, 8, and stabbing her gran 21 times

Edward James was put to death by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Raiford on Thursday, more than three decades after he raped and murdered eight-year-old Toni Neuner before killing her grandmother

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7 d. ago 'Monstrous' killer who shot woman in head as she shielded five week old baby executed

Wendell Arden Grissom was executed by lethal injection nearly two decades after he shot Amber Dawn Matthews in the head as she shielded her friends newborn baby

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7 d. ago 'Monstrous' killer who shot woman in head as she shielded five week old baby has been executed

Oklahoma carried out its first execution of 2025 on Thursday, March 20, giving a lethal injection to a confessed killer who had said in his first interview with police that he wanted the death penalty

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7 d. ago Florida man faces execution for killing girl, 8, and her grandmother

Edward James scheduled to receive lethal injection under death warrant signed in February by Ron DeSantisA Florida man who killed an eight-year-old girl and her grandmother on a night in which he drank heavily and used drugs is set to be executed Thursday.Edward James, 63, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection starting at 6pm at Florida state prison outside Starke under a death warrant signed in February by Governor Ron DeSantis. Barring a last-minute reprieve, the execution is to be the second this year in Florida, which is planning a third in April. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Condemned killer's vile final act before execution by lethal injection

Aaron Gunches kidnapped and shot a man dead in the desert near Pheonix in 2007. He has became the second prisoner to be executed across the United States this week.

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8 d. ago Death Row killer who begged for lethal injection executed as final meal and last words revealed

Aaron Brian Gunches has spent the last 10 years trying to get an execution date, saying that he wanted it to move forward 'so that justice may be lawfully served and give closure'

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8 d. ago Death row inmate's last act of defiance... and his very exotic final meal

Aaron Gunches, 53, was pronounced dead at 10.33am on Wednesday. He offered no resistance as the lethal injection was administered.

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8 d. ago Death row inmate Aaron Brian Gunches can't wait to die after waiting 17 years for the lethal injection

Most death row inmates are begging for a last minute reprieve. But Arizona killer Aaron Brian Gunches has been begging to be executed for nearly 20 years.

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8 d. ago Death Row killer who spent 20 years begging for lethal injection to finally get his wish

Aaron Brian Gunches has been on death row for more than 20 years and, after begging the courts to move up his execution date, is finally set to sit in the death chamber tonight

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1 week ago The death row inmate who can't wait to die and has been waiting YEARS for his lethal injection

Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, was convicted of murder in 2007 after he kidnapped and gunned down his girlfriend's ex-husband Ted Price in Mesa, a Phoenix suburb, in 2002.

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1 week ago ‘I deserve death,’ an Alabama murderer told a judge. Now he’s getting his wish

‘I’m tired. I want to complete my sentence,’ James Osgood said

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2 w. ago Court stays execution of Texas man days before he was set to die by lethal injection

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week

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2 w. ago Death row killer executed by firing squad in US for first time in 15 years

Brad Sigmon chose how he wanted to die after also being offered the electric chair and lethal injection.

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2 w. ago Death row inmate is executed by firing squad after choosing how he would die

Brad Sigmon, of South Carolina, was terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" and so was given special permission to pick the manner of his execution

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2 w. ago South Carolina moves ahead with ‘cruel’ firing squad execution despite outcry

Brad Sigmon, 67, will be first executed by gunfire in US in 15 years as supporters call for clemencyThe US will conduct its first execution by firing squad in 15 years on Friday in South Carolina, despite widespread concerns about the safety and cruelty of this method and growing calls for clemency.Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to be shot to death by three South Carolina prison employees, part of a series of rapid executions the state has pursued in the last six months as it revives capital punishment. After a 13-year-pause in killings, due to limited supplies to carry out executions, the state now directs men on death row to choose their method of death – electric chair, lethal injection or firing squad. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago South Carolina court clears way for first execution by firing squad in 15 years

Lawyers for Brad Sigmon said he chose a death by firing squad because he thought lethal injection would be tortuousSouth Carolina’s supreme court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of convicted murderer Brad Sigmon, clearing the way for his execution by firing squad on Friday.Sigmon’s lawyers wanted to delay his death so they could get a fuller hearing in court to learn more information about the drug South Carolina uses in lethal injections. Sigmon said that lack of information forced him to choose to be shot to death. The state also has an electric chair, but Sigmon said he didn’t want to suffer being cooked alive by electricity. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Woman who claimed she had cancer murdered husband with lethal injection to cover up her Ponzi scheme

Former pharmacist Natalie Cochran was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Michael Cochran by administering him fatal dose of insulin

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3 w. ago Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years

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3 w. ago Wife murdered husband with lethal injection to cover up her terrible secret

Pharmacist and conwoman Natalie Cochran was seemingly living a life of luxury alongside her husband and two children, but time was running out for her – and her husband

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