Phoenix – A prisoner scheduled to be executed next week In what would be Arizona First use of the death penalty In more than two years he will not request a respite from his death sentence.
Brian Gunches, 53, is not expected to participate in an audience on Monday before the Arizona Executive Clemence Board, which will notice about the record that has renounced his right to ask for help.
He is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on March 19 for his sentence for murder in the death of Ted Price in 2002, the ex -husband of his girlfriend, near the suburb of Phoenix de Mesa.
Gunches, who is not a lawyer but represents himself, made an unsuccessful offer at the end of last year to omit legal formalities and Program your execution before that the authorities pointed. His death sentence was “very late,” Gunches told the tallest court in Arizona, who rejected the request.
In a presentation of February 20, Gunches said he did not want to be present at the audience on Monday and said he made a brief virtual appearance before the Board to confirm a exemption of clemency he made in 2022.
“My position has not changed,” Gunches wrote in the recent presentation.
The Arizona Supreme Court issued a death order for Gunches almost two years ago, but the sentence was not carried out because the State Democratic Prosecutor of the State agreed not to follow executions during a review of the state’s death penalty protocol. The review ended in November when Democratic governor Katie Hobbs dismissed the retired federal magistrate judge that she had designated to examine the execution procedures.
Arizona, who has 112 prisoners in the death corridor, took place for the last time Three executions in 2022 After a parenthesis of almost eight years caused by the criticism that an execution of 2014 was failed and due to difficulties in obtaining drugs for execution.
Since then, the State has been criticized for taking Too long to insert an IV by lethal injection into a convicted prisoner.
A significant change made by correction officials was to form a new larger team to insert IV in prisoners convicted after the State had been criticized for taking too long to insert IV in prisoners.
The Arizona Legislature is considering a proposal aimed at changing the State Execution Method. If legislators approved, the proposal would ask voters in 2026 to replace lethal injection with A shooting squad.
Currently, Arizona Row’s prisoners whose crimes occurred before November 23, 1992, can choose between lethal injection or the Gas Chamberwhich was renewed at the end of 2020, since it was last used for execution in 1999.
According to the current law, those who refuse to make the decision or whose crimes occurred after the date of November 1992 must be executed by lethal injection. The measure of the proposed ballot would maintain the lethal gas as one of Arizona’s two execution methods for those whose crimes occurred before the date of 1992.
