Convicted killer Leroy Dean McGill was put to death by lethal injection Wednesday in Arizona’s first execution of 2026.

Death penalty cases often take years before they go to trial in Arizona. After a guilty verdict, the appeals and execution process can take decades.

An Arizona death row killer executed on Wednesday for throwing gasoline on a man and his girlfriend and setting them ablaze ...

An Arizona death row inmate convicted of setting a man on fire during a 2002 attack was executed on Wednesday.

Arizona has executed Leroy McGill for setting two people on fire in 2002, killing one of them and changing the other's life forever.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s clemency board unanimously declined on Thursday to recommend that the governor commute a man’s death sentence to life in prison, keeping the inmate’s planned execution on ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona executed 63-year-old Leroy Dean McGill for the 2002 murder of Charles Perez after he spent more than 20 years on death row. McGill did not resist during the execution ...

Leroy McGill was executed on the morning of May 20 at an Arizona prison facility in Florence. What we know about who might be next.

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Wednesday rejected the plea of an Arizona death row inmate, saying it could not overlook the fact that one of his appeals was filed one day beyond the deadline.

An Arizona death-row inmate’s claim that he was wrongly denied the chance to tell jurors he would be ineligible for parole if they sentenced him to life instead of death will be heard by the Supreme ...

Leroy McGill was sentenced to death in 2004 for a 2002 murder and arson in Phoenix. In Arizona, only first-degree murder with at least one aggravating factor is eligible for the death penalty. The ...