A criminal sentenced to death in the US demands that it be carried out as soon as possible (3 photos)
The situation with the death penalty in Arizona now resembles an old joke about hell, where there are no matches, or fuel shortages, or the boiler is being repaired, or the devils are having a planning meeting.
Aaron Brian Ganchez got himself a girlfriend back in 2002, but her legal husband did not agree with this arrangement, so he got a bullet from his new boyfriend. Then Aaron was caught and sentenced to death. The killer was supposed to be sent to his forefathers by lethal injection, but everything in prison is not so good.
Endless delays, and a few years ago they introduced a temporary moratorium on the execution of such sentences. Then things seemed to improve, and the judge even promised to execute the unfortunate Aaron last year, but Aaron has had catastrophic bad luck. By the time the sentence was supposed to be carried out, it turned out that there were no qualified executioners on staff, and regular medical personnel are not allowed to carry out such an event. So they postponed the event again for an unknown period.
53-year-old Aaron, who has been awaiting his fate for 23 years, is very worried about this, writes angry letters to the Supreme Court, demands that all the screw-up prosecutors be punished, who, such scoundrels, do not want to carry out the sentence under any pretext. And he asks to execute him finally, because he is tired of waiting.
Arizona Supreme Court Building
Arizona, which holds 111 inmates on death row, last carried out three executions in 2022 after a nearly eight-year hiatus prompted by criticism that the 2014 execution was botched and difficulties obtaining execution drugs.