Arizona will resume executions of death row inmates following a two-year pause during which officials reviewed the execution process, Attorney General Kris Mayes said on Nov. 27.
In a statement, Mayes said her office has been working with state corrections officials to review and improve the execution process in Arizona since earlier this year.
The attorney general also said her office will seek an execution warrant for death row inmate Aaron Brian Gunches.
Gunches has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and kidnapping and was sentenced to death for the 2002 murder of his girlfriend’s ex-husband, Ted Price, near the Phoenix suburb of Mesa….