Leroy McGill’s scheduled execution date of May 20 was decades in the making. McGill, now 63, landed on death row after he entered a north Phoenix apartment on July 13, 2002. He told a couple who ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s clemency board unanimously declined on Thursday to recommend that the governor commute a man’s death sentence to life in prison, keeping the inmate’s planned execution on ...

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Wednesday rejected the plea of an Arizona death row inmate, saying it could not overlook the fact that one of his appeals was filed one day beyond the deadline.

Three American inmates are set to be executed on Wednesday and Thursday in what stands to become the deadliest week for the death penalty in the U.S. so far this year. Arizona is set to execute Leroy ...

Leroy McGill was executed for the 2002 murder of Charles Perez and attempted murder of Nova Banta. McGill attacked the pair by throwing a gasoline and Styrofoam mixture on them and setting them on ...

An Arizona death row killer executed on Wednesday for throwing gasoline on a man and his girlfriend and setting them ablaze used his last words to thank "everyone" for being "so accommodating and nice ...

An Arizona death-row inmate’s claim that he was wrongly denied the chance to tell jurors he would be ineligible for parole if they sentenced him to life instead of death will be heard by the Supreme ...

An Arizona man accused of crucifying a pastor and placing a crown of thorns on the victim's head has requested the death penalty so everyone "can move on with our lives." Adam Sheafe, who is ...