Leroy McGill’s scheduled execution date of May 20 was decades in the making. McGill, now 63, landed on death row after he entered a north Phoenix apartment on July 13, 2002. He told a couple who ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s clemency board unanimously declined on Thursday to recommend that the governor commute a man’s death sentence to life in prison, keeping the inmate’s planned execution on ...

Leroy McGill was sentenced to death in 2004 for a 2002 murder and arson in Phoenix. In Arizona, only first-degree murder with at least one aggravating factor is eligible for the death penalty. The ...