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State Senate Republicans are working to boost the penalties against those who supply, transport or sell fentanyl.A bill advanced Thursday that would sentence those who provide the drug to life in prison or death, if someone dies after taking it.The move is prompted by the ongoing opioid epidemic, which has seen about 8,000 people die from overdoses in the last five years.The
PHOENIX -- Republicans in the state Senate are working to greatly boost the penalties for people who supply the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, advancing a bill on Thursday that would
Fentanyl dealers linked to an overdose death could face the death penalty under a Republican proposal that critics say will also sweep up drug addicts and send them to death row.
The Arizona Legislature's own attorneys called this new law unconstitutional. Arizona Republicans passed it anyway.
Bill gives wrongfully convicted new chance at freedom Arizonans who contend they were wrongfully convicted could get a new way of trying to exonerate themselves. Without dissent, members of the House Committee on Criminal Justice Reform approved legislation Wednesday that sets up procedures by which an inmate can seek forensic examination of items that were not tested at the time of the trial because the technology was not available at the time. SB1469, already approved by the Senate, now goes to the full House. There is precedent for the proposal by Sen. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert. In 2010 l...