Execution date set: Arizona will execute Leroy McGill on May 20 for a 2002 murder, its first execution of the year. Broader death penalty debate: Texas nears its 600th execution as concerns grow over ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated photo provided by Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows prisoner Leroy McGill, who is ...

FILE - This undated photo provided by Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows prisoner Leroy McGill, who is scheduled to be executed on May 20, 2026, in the 2002 killing of ...

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 ...

FLORENCE, Ariz. — As a condemned murderer gasped for more than 90 minutes in the death chamber, a judge convened an urgent hearing in which a state lawyer assured him that the inmate was comatose and ...

PHOENIX — A May 20 execution has been scheduled for an Arizona man convicted of murder for fatally setting a man on fire during a 2002 attack, marking what would be the state’s first use of the death ...

FLORENCE, Ariz. — An Arizona prisoner convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline at him and lighting a match was put to death Wednesday, the first of three executions planned this week ...