By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services/Arizona Daily Star
A former Republican legislator and a Flagstaff doctor are launching a campaign to repeal the death penalty in Arizona.
The initiative would repeal sections of statute that allow individuals to be executed by the state. Instead, those who would otherwise be sentenced to death would serve out the rest of their lives behind bars.
That change, if approved by voters in 2016, also would commute the sentences of the 118 individuals currently on death row.
