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Arizona and the Death Penalty

Arizona allows the death penalty as an option in cases of first-degree murder where there at least one of 10 aggravating circumstances.

The sentence is death by lethal injection for those persons sentenced after 11/15/92. Persons sentenced prior to that date have a choice between lethal injection and lethal gas.

Minimum age for capital punishment: 16 years

Executions 1930-1976: 41

Executions since 1977: 12


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