Arizona will next month execute its first inmate in two years when it puts to death a man who pleaded guilty to murder and says his punishment is “long overdue.”
The Arizona Supreme Court set a March 19 execution date on Tuesday for Aaron Brian Gunches, who was convicted in 2007 in the 2002 shooting death of Ted Price, his girlfriend’s ex-husband, near the Phoenix suburb of Mesa.
Gunches also shot a trooper twice when he was pulled over by the Arizona Department of Public Safety near the California border in 2003, according to authorities.
