The ruling enables the state to move ahead with executions for more than two dozen death-row inmates.
Catholic leaders decry federal judge’s ruling on lethal injections
Court examines death-row inmates’ claims of ineffective counsel
Arizona wants to block submission of new evidence based on interpretation of a federal law.
Federal judge blocks scheduled executions of federal death-row inmates
A federal judge Nov. 20 temporarily blocked the executions of four federal death-row inmates scheduled for December and January, saying the lethal injections they were to receive goes against the Federal Death Penalty Act.