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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A lawyer for a man on Arizona's death row told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that jurors in the case were wrongly told that the

WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for a man on Arizona’s death row told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that jurors in the case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure the man would never walk free was to sentence him to death.

The Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear an Arizona death-row inmate's claim that he was wrongly denied the chance to tell jurors he would be ineligible for parole if they sentenced him to life instead of death.

John Montenegro Cruz was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Tucson Police Officer Patrick Hardesty.

PHOENIX (AP) — A unanimous Arizona Supreme Court ruling Friday upholds a trial judges...