Jimmy Jenkins is a Criminal Justice Reporter at the Arizona Republic, focusing on prisons, jails, police, and courts. He has covered the death penalty in Arizona for many years, primarily for the Arizona Republic, yet he has also published extensively in a variety of publications across the nation, including the following:
USA Today, NPR, Yahoo Sports Canada, WBUR-FM (Boston, MA), Marketplace, KRCC-FM (Colorado Springs, CO), The Marshall Project, KPBS-TV (San Diego, CA), WTIU-TV (Bloomington, IN), WVXU-FM (Cincinnati, OH), NewsBreak, KCUR-FM (Kansas City, MO), KALW-FM (San Francisco, CA), KJZZ-FM (Phoenix, AZ), WESA-FM (Pittsburgh, PA), WUNC-FM (Chapel Hill, NC), WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Prison Legal News, Boise State Public Radio, Iowa Public Radio, Texas Public Radio (TPR), Farmington Daily Times, KLCC-FM (Eugene, OR), WFAE-FM (Charlotte, NC), WUWM-FM (Milwaukee, WI), Fronteras, KHPR-FM (Honolulu, HI), The Crime Report, WWNO-FM (New Orleans, LA), Jefferson Public Radio, KBIA-FM (Columbia, MO), KMUW-FM (Wichita, KS), KNKX-FM (Tacoma, WA), WFCR FM, WVTF-FM (Roanoke, VA), WYPR-FM (Baltimore, MD), KRWG-TV (Las Cruces, NM), KNAU-FM (Flagstaff, AZ), High Plains Public Radio, KGOU Radio (Oklahoma City, OK), KUNR-FM (Reno, NV), Our Community Now, WYSO-FM (Dayton, OH), KCBX-FM (San Luis Obispo, CA), KPCW-FM (Salt Lake City, UT), KAJX-FM (Aspen, CO), WBAA-FM (West Lafayette, IN), Yellowstone Public Radio, Rose Law Group, KENW-TV (Portales, NM)
In the video link provided above, you can find Jimmy Jenkins featured in a 2022 story done by the local news, as Arizona was gearing up to resume executions for the first time in 8 years. Clarence Dixon was to be the first person executed in Arizona since the botched execution of Joseph Wood in 2014, thus all eyes were on Arizona as this state prepared to carry out another execution.
Click on the link below to view a sampling of Jimmy Jenkins' recent work, primarily focused on the death penalty in Arizona. His articles can be viewed in full by clicking on the active links found with the title of each article authored by Jenkins.
Articles written by Jimmy Jenkins
Click on the link below to listen to the story of Jimmy Jenkins, as he shares his background and the journey he took to becoming a reporter focused on criminal justice issues in general and the death penalty specifically. This recording of Jimmy Jenkins sharing his story was published by KJZZ News, who partnered with the Arizona Republic to produce the Arizona Storytellers series.
https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1798191/arizona-storytellers-jimmy-jenkins
On March 3, 2023 I met with Jimmy Jenkins in Phoenix, Arizona to talk with him about his views of the executions that he has covered in Arizona. He spoke specifically of his traumatic experience of being a witness to the execution of Frank Atwood on June 8, 2022. The link below contains the piece that he wrote for the Arizona Republic about his witnessing experience.