Execution date set: Arizona will execute Leroy McGill on May 20 for a 2002 murder, its first execution of the year. Broader death penalty debate: Texas nears its 600th execution as concerns grow over ...

Leroy Dean McGill had a difficult childhood, moving between homes and institutions after his parents divorced. In 2002, McGill threw a gasoline mixture on Charles Perez and Nova Banta, setting them on ...

Leroy McGill’s scheduled execution date of May 20 was decades in the making. McGill, now 63, landed on death row after he entered a north Phoenix apartment on July 13, 2002. He told a couple who ...

PHOENIX — A May 20 execution has been scheduled for an Arizona man convicted of murder for fatally setting a man on fire during a 2002 attack, marking what would be the state’s first use of the death ...

PHOENIX — An execution warrant has been issued for an Arizona inmate convicted of killing a man in 2002 by pouring gasoline on him and lighting a match. The Arizona Supreme Court announced Thursday ...

FLORENCE, Ariz. — As a condemned murderer gasped for more than 90 minutes in the death chamber, a judge convened an urgent hearing in which a state lawyer assured him that the inmate was comatose and ...