Arizona Prisons

"Imprisoned Minds" is co-authored by Kevin Wright, a criminal justice professor at ASU, and Erik Maloney, who's currently serving a life sentence at a prison in Arizona.

A state prison inmate in Yuma died days after undergoing a hernia surgery earlier this year. But an autopsy shows he died from an unrelated and natural cause.

Retired federal Judge David Duncan still intends to complete his report about what he has learned about the execution process in Arizona even though Gov. Katie Hobbs fired him last month.

A diverse collection of groups from across the political spectrum are calling on Gov. Katie Hobbs to complete an independent review of how the state carries out executions.

Gov. Katie Hobbs on Dec. 9 defended her decision to ignore the recommendations of her hand-picked expert and resume executions in Arizona.

Gov. Katie Hobbs is under fire for pulling the plug on an independent review of the death penalty in Arizona that she ordered when she first took office last year.

Pima County Attorney Laura Conover has called for a better review of the death penalty, after top state officials announced last week they were ready to resume executions.

The former federal magistrate who Gov. Katie Hobbs hired to study the execution process said Wednesday that he was dismissed because he was telling the governor something she didn't want to hear: There is no humane way to kill someone with lethal injection.

Arizona is set to resume executions of inmates on death row as soon as this coming year. The decision from Attorney General Kris Mayes comes after Gov. Katie Hobbs dismissed the person she hired to draft a report on the process in the state.

People were dying in the Pima County Jails at higher rates than the rest of the country. But, there was a single death in the Pima County Jails this year, which is a major shift.