BREAKING: Aaron Gunches Put to Death | His Final Meal, Last Words and Death Row Case (US)

on March 19th 2025 Aaron Brian gunes was executed for the 2002 murder of his girlfriend’s ex-husband Ted price keep watching as this video uncovers the disturbing details of his crime his final meal his last words and how his execution was carried out what’s surprising about this case is that unlike most death row inmates Aaron didn’t spend years fighting for his life he demanded that the state carry out his sentence as fast as possible but before we dive into this let’s take a look at how he got into this mess in the first

place in November 2002 Ted arrived at his ex-wife Katherine Leer’s apartment in Mesa Arizona planning to stay for a while as he waited for a school Grant to come through but things didn’t go as planned for the first few days everything seemed fine but as time P tension started to rise the past they had tried to leave behind was still there boiling beneath the surface after about 10 days Catherine snapped she told Ted to leave and the argument quickly escalated then at some point she grabbed a telephone and smashed it into his

face Ted didn’t collapse but something was off he was still conscious but he looked dazed unsteady like he wasn’t fully there that night Aaron showed up at Cather ‘s apartment he listened to what had happened and instead of calling for help he took control of the situation in his own way he told Katherine and her two roommates Michelle Beck and Jennifer Garcia to help load Ted into Katherine’s car and Jennifer was told to drive Aaron claimed he was taking Ted to the bus station that he’d buy him a ticket and

send him away for good but Aaron had no intention of letting Ted leave town when they arrived at the station Aaron realized he had a problem he didn’t have the money to buy Ted a bus ticket and just like that the plan changed instead of letting Ted go Aaron told Jennifer to keep driving out of Mesa out into the desert the city lights faded behind them and the further they went the clearer it became this trip wasn’t about putting Ted on a bus anymore eventually Aaron told Jennifer to turn on to a dirt road taking them

deeper into the dark empty desert off the Beeline Highway no traffic no Witnesses no way out the car rolled to a stop in the middle of nowhere surrounded by nothing but darkness and the Eerie emptiness of the desert Aaron stepped out and walked toward the trunk but at that same moment Ted saw his chance and made a desperate attempt to escape despite his injuries he managed to climb out stumbling as he tried to run but before he could get far gunshots shattered the silence Jennifer later recalled he hearing three sharp cracks ring out

before she saw Ted collapse followed by a fourth shot that left no doubt about what had happened when she looked again Aaron was standing over his body the gun still in his hand as if it was just another task completed without a word Aaron climbed back into the car and Jennifer did what she was told she turned the car around and drove back to Mesa along the way they stopped at a dumpster where they tossed out Ted’s belongings erasing any sign that he had never been with them a few days later Ted’s body was found in

the desert and it didn’t take long for police to turn their attention to Catherine and her roommates when investigators began questioning them the story started to unravel and Under Pressure Michelle finally admitted what they had all been too afraid to say Aaron had told her that he killed Ted but by then Aaron was already gone for 2 months he managed to stay on the run but on January 15th 20 three his luck finally ran out Arizona State Trooper Robert Flanery pulled him over for what should have been a routine

traffic stop but he had no idea that the man behind the wheel was a killer before Robert could react Aaron pulled out a gun and fired twice hitting the officer before speeding off into the night officer Robert collapsed to the ground bleeding on the side of the road but luckily he survived and this set off an immediate and massive response with within hours more than 50 law enforcement officers were on the hunt for the man who had just shot a cop and killed Another Man In Cold Blood Aaron had managed to disappear into the

Wilderness but he couldn’t hide forever officers spread out across the state searching every possible Hideout and by the next day they had him cornered when they finally found him he was curled up inside a hay stack in wendon Arizona cold exhausted and completely out of option there was no more running his time on the outside was over and from that moment on the countdown to his execution had already begun Aaron was taken into custody and faced multiple charges including the attempted murder of Officer flaner but

when it came to Ted Price’s murder he didn’t put up a fight there were no drawn out legal battles or desperate pleas for leniency in 2004 he pleaded guilty to First deegree murder and kidnapping fully accepting the consequences of what he had done but rather than allowing a defense attorney to argue for his life Aaron made another bold decision he chose to represent himself in court and instead of fighting for a lesser sentence he did nothing he offered no defense no argument no emotion with nothing standing in their way the jury found him

guilty and in 2008 he was sentenced to death but his execution wouldn’t come as easily as he had expected the Arizona Supreme Court overturned the sentence ruling that the crime while brutal didn’t meet the legal standard for cruelty prosecutors had argued that Ted’s murder was cruel and heinous but the court disagreed because Ted never saw the attack coming and died instantly they stated that he hadn’t experienced fear or prolonged suffering meaning the crime didn’t legally meet the criteria required for the death penalty

Aaron had been sentenced to die but now the state would have to put him on trial all over again with the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision to overturn his sentence Maricopa County put Aaron back on trial in 2013 but just like before he refused to fight for his life once again he chose to represent himself and once again he refused to put up any defense the court assigned attorney Elizabeth crat as his advisory counsel but Aaron wanted no part of it every attempt she made to help was met with resistance we argued every single day she later

recalled Elizabeth Crowder believed the case should never have been a death penalty trial in her view the evidence could have supported second-degree murder which would have spared him from execution but Aaron had already pleaded guilty that meant the jury had only one decision left to make would he spend the rest of his life in prison or would he be sentenced to die what do you think should have happened while most death row inmates spend years fighting to escape execution Aaron did the opposite in November 2022 after

spending 14 years awaiting execution he took an extraordinary step he asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue his execution warrant he claimed he didn’t want delays saying he wanted Justice to be served and for the victim’s families to have closure the Arizona attorney general agreed and the process to carry out his death sentence was officially set in motion for the first time in decades it looked like his execution would finally happen but then in early 2023 Aaron changed his mind after years of demanding to die he suddenly wasn’t so

sure he had watched how other executions in Arizona had gone horribly wrong and what he saw Disturbed him reports showed that Lethal Injections were failing prisoners were gasping for air long after they were supposed to be unconscious and executioners struggled to insert IV lines leaving inmates writhing in pain for minutes before they finally died Aaron called it torture and at the same time public pressure against the death penalty was growing and as concerns about Arizona’s execution methods escalated Governor

Katie Hobbs made a bold decision she halted all executions and ordered a full review of the state’s protocols with that decision Aaron’s case was thrown into limbo the courts approved his execution for April 2023 but when the time came officials admitted they weren’t ready to go through with it his warrant expired and the process fell apart once again but Ted’s sister Karen wasn’t going to let it slide she petitioned the court to force the state to carry out the execution arguing that Justice had already been delayed long enough

Arizona’s prison officials however pushed back they claimed they weren’t prepared to conduct an execution in a constitutionally sound Manner and that they lacked staff with the proper expertise to ensure everything was done correctly with no way forward Aaron’s execution warrant expired once again and the process that had dragged on for decades hit yet another roadblock but this time things would be different by 2025 Aaron had grown tired of the delays and once again he demanded to be executed making it clear that he

wanted no more legal obstacles this time the state didn’t hesitate the Arizona Supreme Court set March 19th as His official execution date and there would be no last minute changes Aaron was determined he never asked for mercy and never tried to stop it he criticized the court system for taking too long and even tried to speed up his own execution by by skipping legal steps now after more than two decades it was finally happening on March 19th 2025 Aaron was strapped to a gurnie inside the Arizona State Prison in Florence the same lethal

injection process he once called torture was now being used to end his life his final meal consisted of onion rings a spicy gyro a barbecue gyro baklava and a double western bacon cheeseburger with fries he refused to speak any final words at 53 years old Aaron Brian gunes was dead