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| Arizona Death Chamber |
PHOENIX -- With two executions already carried out so far this year and two more up for consideration next week, Arizona is on pace to match its busiest year for executions since establishing the death penalty in 1910 and be among the busiest death-penalty states in the nation, The Associated Press has determined.
If the Arizona Supreme Court approves of two more death warrants on Tuesday, and if the state carries out three additional executions of inmates likely to be at the end of the appeals process well before year-end, that would make seven executions for 2012.
That would match the 1999 total, the most ever in the state.
"We're having a big year," said Andrew Clemency, a public defender who specializes in death penalty cases in the Phoenix area and teaches about the subject at Arizona State University. "Arizona is becoming a major player in the death-penalty world, right up there with places like Texas or Georgia or Florida."
Source: Huffington Post, March 14, 2012
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