Aaron Gunches, an inmate on Arizona’s death row, has been executed by lethal injection, breaking a nearly two-year moratorium on the state’s executions. Four executioners injected Gunches with pentobarbital at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence shortly after 10 a.

Aaron Gunches died by lethal injection on Wednesday morning as Arizona carried out a death penalty for the first time in over two years.

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.