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Florence prison

Mike Sakal, Tribune | Posted: Friday, June 10, 2011 3:11 pm

There are 127 inmates currently are on death row awaiting or appealing their execution in the Arizona Department of Corrections system. Of those, 20 inmates have been on death row 20 years or longer, racking up costs into the millions of dollars to taxpayers as public and federal defenders file flurries of appeals for decades trying to block their executions.

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