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Arizona To Resume Executions

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2025 published in Prison Legal News February, 2025, page 13
Filed under: Death Row, Lethal Injection Method of Execution. Location: Arizona.

On November 26, 2024, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) dismissed David Duncan, the head of the state Independent Death Penalty Review committee that she appointed in January 2023 to review execution procedures after a series of state killings that Hobbs called “botched.”

But when executions resume, there will be no ...

 

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