Aaron Brian Gunches, 53, was executed on Wednesday, March 19, at 10 a.m. for the 2002 shooting death of Ted Price, his girlfriend’s ex-husband, near Mesa.

ARIZONA, USA — Aaron Gunches, the inmate who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering another man in Mesa, is scheduled to be executed Wednesday. It will be the state's first execution in over two years. The execution will be carried out by lethal injection on March 19 at 10 a.m. in Florence, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.

PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona man who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder was scheduled to be executed Wednesday in the state’s first use of the death penalty in more than two years.