Death Row

Meet the Three Women Currently on Arizona's Death Row

By Matthew Hendley Wed., May 22 2013 at 2:10 PM
Categories: Death Row

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While a jury's apparently having a tough time deciding whether Jodi Arias should be put to death for killing Travis Alexander, we'll point out that Arias would join just a few other women on death row, if that's where the jury decides to send her.

There are only three Arizona women in the custody of the Arizona Department of Corrections who have been sentenced to die, and the convictions of one of those women was just recently overturned by a federal appeals court.

See also:
-Death Row Debbie
-How a Teen Prostitute and Beautician Morphed Into a Minuteman American Defense Leader and Alleged Killer
-Psycho Killer: Jodi Arias' Kinky Death-Penalty Trial


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Debra Milke's Overturned Conviction for Killing Son in '89 to Be Appealed by AZ Attorney General Tom Horne

By Ray Stern Fri., Mar. 15 2013 at 12:32 PM
Categories: Death Row

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Debra Milke

Debra Milke, on Death Row since her 1990 conviction for conspiring to have her 4-year-old son killed in 1989, won't be released from prison anytime soon.

The federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Milke's conviction yesterday, raising the possibility that she could be set free in 30 days. But today, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne announced he definitely will appeal the court's decision, which means Milke isn't going anywhere -- for now.

See also: Debra Milke's Convictions Overturned in Son's Murder, After Two Decades on Death Row

See also: Debbie Milke Was Convicted of Murdering Her Own Child, Now She May Win Her Freedom (or, At Least, a New Trial)


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Debra Milke's Convictions Overturned in Son's Murder, After Two Decades on Death Row

By Matthew Hendley Thu., Mar. 14 2013 at 11:40 AM
Categories: Death Row, Justice?
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Debbie Milke
The convictions and death sentence of Debbie Milke -- who's been on death row in Arizona for more than two decades in her son's murder -- have been overturned by a federal appeals court.

Milke's 4-year-old son, Christopher, went "missing" in December 1989 after a friend and a roommate took the boy "to see Santa" at the Metrocenter mall.

See also:
-Death Row Debbie
-Milke Was Convicted of Murdering Her Own Child, Now She May Win Her Freedom
-Casey Anthony Murder Trial Eerily Reminiscent of Phoenix's Debbie Milke Case


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Richard Glassel, Death Row Inmate, Dies From "Natural Causes" at Age 74

By Matthew Hendley Thu., Jan. 17 2013 at 2:46 PM
Categories: Death Row
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Richard Glassel
After waiting around in prison for nine years, death-row inmate Richard Glassel died from "apparent natural causes" at the age of 74, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.

Glassel killed two people and injured three when he opened fire at a board of directors meeting for a retirement community in Peoria on April 19, 2000.

See also:
-Off with their heads
-Nation's Oldest Death Row Inmate Will Never Be Executed

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Richard Stokley Executed for Rape and Murder of Two Teenagers; Partner-in-Crime Out Free

By Matthew Hendley Wed., Dec. 5 2012 at 11:03 AM
Categories: Death Row
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Richard Stokley
Richard Stokley was executed today at the state prison in Florence, more than 21 years after he and an accomplice kidnapped, raped, and murdered two 13-year-old girls in Cochise County.

While Stokley, 60, got the state's lethal juice today, his accomplice in those crimes, Randy Brazeal, is currently a free man.

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Daniel Cook, Convicted Murderer With Tortured Past, Executed in Florence

By Jason Lewis Wed., Aug. 8 2012 at 3:55 PM
Categories: Death Row
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Daniel Cook's dead.
Daniel Cook was executed today in Florence for the 1987 strangulation murders of 16-year-old Kevin Swaney and 26-year-old Carlos Cruz-Ramos in Lake Havasu City.

Appeals made by Cook's defense team were denied by a state board for the final time on August 3, and by the U.S. Supreme Court before his execution earlier this morning.

Cook was executed at 11:03 a.m today, after a lethal-injection process that began at 10:26 a.m.

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Daniel Wayne Cook Might Actually Be Executed This Time; The Juice Scheduled for August 8

By Matthew Hendley Tue., Jun. 12 2012 at 3:02 PM
Categories: Death Row
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Daniel Wayne Cook is going to die someday. The state recommends August 8.
Let's try this one again: Daniel Wayne Cook has a date with death.

After reaching into the excuse bag over and over again to avoid execution -- with the U.S. Supreme Court taking the bait at the last minute more than a year ago -- Cook's execution now is scheduled for August 8, after the high court decided not to side with him.

Cook's supposed to get the state-sponsored juicing for murdering two men in Lake Havasu City in 1987, whom Cook raped and tortured before strangling them to death.

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Do Arizona's Executions Need to Be Carried Out in a "More Timely Manner"?

By Matthew Hendley Thu., Mar. 1 2012 at 7:00 AM
Categories: Death Row, Morning Poll
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Is it taking too long for people to get to this room?
Robert Moorman, who sat on Arizona's death row for nearly three decades, was executed yesterday for chopping up his adoptive mother.

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne responded by saying there was "no rational reason" for it to take that long.

"We have been working hard to help reform a system in which delays between verdict and execution are so long," Horne said. "Families need to see justice done in a timely manner."

That's actually the second time Horne's brought up the need to streamline the process, as he also brought it up after the state executed its last 20-year death-row resident, kid-killing child molester Richard Bible.

His method of changing the process thus far has apparently consisted of barking at the moon, since there are still more than 20 death-row inmates who've been waiting there more than 20 years.

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Tom Horne: "There Is No Rational Reason" For Taking So Long to Execute Robert Moorman

By Matthew Hendley Wed., Feb. 29 2012 at 11:29 AM
Categories: Death Row
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If you've been sentenced to die in this room, you may want to pick up a new hobby to entertain yourself for the next few decades.
​Attorney General Tom Horne acknowledges "[j]ustice was carried out" today against Brian Moorman, who was executed this morning for chopping up his adoptive mother.

He's also wondering why exactly it took until 2012 to execute a guy who hacked up mom in 1984.

As we've previously noted, Arizona spent an estimated $586,000 in 2010 housing the 24 convicted murderers who've been waiting to be juiced for more than two decades.

After Moorman's execution today, there are still more than 20 inmates with more than 20 years on death row -- at a rate of $66.90 per day to house, feed, and care for a single inmate in the Browning Unit of the Eyman Prison, where death-row inmates are housed, as of the Department of Corrections' most recent report.

"There has never been any doubt as to Moorman's guilt for this heinous crime," Horne says in a statement from his office. "While Moorman was offered a 72 hour compassionate leave to visit his adoptive mother, he bound, gagged, strangled and stabbed her to death. He then dismembered her body and attempted to dispose of the parts by passing them off as animal remains or simply putting them into trash containers. There is no rational reason for justice to have been delayed [28] years."

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Robert Moorman Executed For Chopping Up His Adoptive Mother in 1984

By Matthew Hendley Wed., Feb. 29 2012 at 10:52 AM
Categories: Death Row
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​Robert Moorman, who sat on Arizona's death row for nearly three decades, was executed today at the state prison in Florence.

Moorman, 63, was originally in prison for a kidnapping conviction out of Coconino County in 1972.

During that prison stint, Moorman was granted a 72-hour "compassionate furlough" from the prison so he could spend time with his adoptive mother.

He ended up chopping her into pieces, flushing her fingers down the toilet, and distributing the rest of her remains into a few dumpsters around Florence.

Moorman was Arizona's longest-serving death row inmate, and none of his many appeals of his death sentence went in his favor.

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