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"The death penalty is the law of Arizona," Kris Mayes, the state's top prosecutor, said on Friday morning. Djerf, 55, was executed by a pentobarbital injection at the Arizona State Prison Complex in Florence. "Today should be about the members of the Luna family, who Richard Djerf brutally murdered that September day in 1993," Mayes said. "Those four innocent victims deserve justice, and their loved ones deserve closure." On Sept. 14, 1993, Djerf murdered Patricia and Albert Luna Sr., along with