Arizona executes inmate convicted of killing another man set on fire in a 2002 attack
This undated photo provided by Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry shows prisoner Leroy McGill, who is scheduled to be executed on May 20, 2026, in the 2002 killing of Charles Perez. (Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry via AP, File)
FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona prisoner convicted of killing another man by throwing gasoline at him and lighting a match was put to death Wednesday, the first of three executions planned this week around the U.S.
Leroy Dean McGill, 63, was pronounced dead at 10:26 a.m. PT following a lethal injection at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence, corrections officials said. McGill drew the death penalty for his murder conviction in the killing of Charles Perez, who was attacked with his girlfriend in a north Phoenix apartment on July 13, 2002.
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