Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs

has

voted

Friday

that her government will not carry out an execution, even though the state Supreme Court has scheduled it despite the objections of the state’s new attorney general.

The Promise of the Democratic Governor

Friday

to not execute Aaron Gunches on April 6 over his 2002 murder conviction came a day after the state Supreme Court said it must issue an execution order if certain appeals are completed and those requirements are met in the Gunches case.

last week,

Hobbies

recently

appointed retired U.S. Magistrate Judge David Duncan to investigate states’ procurement of lethal injection drugs and other death penalty protocols

because of because of

the state’s history of mismanagement of executions.

There will be no execution under my administration until the people of Arizona can trust that the state is not breaking the law by carrying out the harshest sentences, Hobbs said in a statement Friday.

Attorney General Att. Gene.

Kris Mayes’ office has said it will not seek court orders to carry out executions while Hobb’s review is underway.

Mayes, a Democrat who took office in January, tried to withdraw a request from her Republican predecessor Mark

Brnovich

, for a warrant to Gunches. The court refused to withdraw the request on Thursday.

The court said Hobbs’ review is not a good reason to refrain from issuing the warrant.

Maye’s office declined to comment on Hobbs’ promise not to carry out the execution next month.

Hobbs claims that while the court authorized Gunche’s execution, the warrant does not require the state to carry it out.

Dale Baich, a former federal public defender who teaches death penalty laws at Arizona State University, said Hobbs can use her authority as state president when the state believes it cannot carry out an execution in a constitutionally acceptable manner.

What the governor did is not unique, said Baich, who applauded Hobbs’ move. Governors in Alabama, Ohio and Tennessee recently used their power to suspend executions because they had serious questions about protocols in their states.

The Maricopa County Prosecutor’s Office, which prosecuted Gunches, issued a statement saying it believes Hobbs has a constitutional and legal responsibility to carry out all sentences, including the execution of Aaron Gunches.

Arizona, which has 110 death row inmates, carried out three executions last year after a nearly eight-year hiatus following criticism that a 2014 execution had failed and over difficulties obtaining execution drugs.

Since the resumption of executions, the state has been criticized for taking too long to insert a lethal injection into a prisoner’s body in early May and for the Arizona Republic newspapers’ request to witness the last three executions, was rejected.

Gunches will be executed April 6 for the 2002 murder of his girlfriend’s ex-husband Ted Price in Maricopa County.

Gunches, who is not a lawyer, represented himself in November when he asked the Supreme Court to issue his execution order so that justice could be served and the victims shut down. In Brnovich’s last month in office, his office asked the court for an order to execute Gunches.

But Gunches withdrew his request in early January, and Mayes asked for the execution order filed during Brnovich’s term to be withdrawn.

In her statement, Hobbs also said Arizona’s prison system has deep problems that require attention, citing a damning court ruling that concluded the state had violated the rights of inmates in state-run prisons by not providing them with adequate medical and mental health care. to provide assistance.

healthcare

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In his first month in office, Hobbs announced the creation of a commission to study a range of problems in Arizona’s prisons, including staffing, prison conditions and the

healthcare

offered to those behind bars.