PHOENIX — Arizona is poised to resume executions after a five-year hiatus brought on by an execution that critics said was botched, a subsequent lawsuit challenging the way the state carries out the
death penalty, and the difficulty of finding lethal injection drugs, Attorney General Mark Brnovich said.
It's unknown when the next execution will be scheduled. Fourteen of the 116 inmates on death row in Arizona have exhausted all appeals of their sentences. Brnovich's letter comes after the U.S. Justice Department's announcement Thursday that the federal government intends to carry out several executions in the coming months.
In recent years, Arizona and other states have struggled to buy execution drugs after U.S. and European pharmaceutical companies began blocking the use of their products in lethal injections.
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