Prosecutors in Arizona are seeking to execute a prisoner in what would mark the state’s first use of the death penalty after a two-year pause. The Arizona Attorney General’s Office asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to issue a warrant for the execution of Aaron Brian Gunches,

Prosecutors are pursuing the death penalty against a man accused of a barrage of stabbings on the Strip in 2022 that left two people dead and six others injured. Yoni Barrios, 34, was indicted in late December on charges including terrorism and murder in connection with the stabbings on Oct.

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing two people and injuring six more in a mass stabbing on the Las Vegas Strip should a jury convict him, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned.

The court had issued a death warrant for Aaron Brian Gunches nearly two years ago, but the sentence wasn’t carried out because the state’s Democratic attorney general agreed not to pursue executions d

It comes after a two-year pause in Arizona executions due to concerns that the Department of Corrections Rehabilitation and Reentry had botched the process during prior lethal injections.