PHOENIX — A judge in Phoenix said Thursday afternoon he was helpless to provide any immediate relief to the family of a murder victim who wanted the state to go ahead with the scheduled execution that day of his killer because a death warrant issued by the Arizona Supreme Court was expiring.
That leaves Aaron Gunches, who had sought his own execution, and the sister and daughter of murder victim Ted Price, who also wanted it carried out, with no way to get the relief they sought, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Frank Moskowitz said during the court hearing.
Moskowitz said that with the Supreme Court declining late Wednesday to extend the warrant set to expire at 12:01 a.m. Friday, he had nothing to order the state to do.
