An Arizona death row inmate has asked the state Supreme Court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than officials were planning. Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, had previously ...
Two federal death row inmates whose sentences were commuted by President Joe Biden are refusing to sign the paperwork ...
An Arizona death row inmate has asked the state Supreme Court to skip legal formalities and schedule his execution earlier than officials were planning. Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, had previously pushed ...
A Texas death penalty case is explore in the Oscar-contending short documentary 'I Am Ready, Warden,' directed by Smriti ...
One of Roy Cooper’s final acts as governor was to commute the sentences of 15 death row inmates. They will remain in prison for life without the possibility of parole. However, the decision does ...
One of the inmates receiving clemency had challenged his sentence under the groundbreaking Racial Justice Act of 2009. A ...
The inmates or representatives petition for clemency following complicated convictions. The state currently has 136 offenders on death row, and the Governor’s Clemency Office received petitions ...
PHOENIX — Aaron Gunches, an inmate on Arizona’s death row, is telling the state Supreme Court he is ready to die. In a hand-written legal brief, Gunches, who had pleaded guilty to the 2002 ...
The current makeup of death row inmates is 60% Black and more than 34% white; there is just one Asian and one Latino man. Only one woman is on death row. The oldest and longest-serving death row ...
Cooper announced on Tuesday that he reviewed 89 clemency petitions from death row inmates and granted 15 of them. Their sentences were commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole.