Source: United Press International
“Arizona has [killed] a 53-year-old man convicted of kidnapping and murdering his girlfriend’s former partner in 2002, marking the first death by the state since 2022. Death row inmate Aaron Gunches was [killed] by lethal injection at the Arizona State Prison Complex-Florence on Wednesday morning. … Gunches pleaded guilty in 2007 to first-degree murder and kidnapping and was sentenced to death for fatally shooting Ted Prince four times — three times in the chest and once to the back of the head — in an isolated area of the Arizona desert near Mesa, a city located east of Phoenix, in November 2002.” (03/20/25)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/20/Arizona-execution/9131742454887/