PHOENIX (AZFamily) — This week, the Pinal County attorney announced intentions to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing Apache Junction Police Officer Gabriel Facio .

Even if the suspect Roger Nunez is found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, it would likely take decades before he would ever be executed.

There are currently 109 inmates on death row in Arizona, including Ernesto Martinez. He was convicted in the 1995 killing of DPS Officer Bob Martin . Martinez was sentenced to death in 1998, but is still sitting on death row more than 25 years later.

“I think the death penalty kind of rings hollow in that, you know, here it’s been, well, since the trial almost 28 years later,” said Tom Krause, a juror in Martinez’s Arizona trial, on why his opinion of the

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