STATE v. RICHMOND

No. CR-80-2914-AP.

180 Ariz. 573 (1994)

886 P.2d 1329

STATE of Arizona, Appellee, v. Willie Lee RICHMOND, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Arizona, En Banc.

December 15, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant Woods, Atty. Gen. by Paul J. McMurdie, Chief Counsel, Crim. Appeals Section and Jack Roberts, Phoenix, for appellee.

MacDonald, Hoague & Bayless by Timothy K. Ford, Seattle, and Susan A. Kettlewell, Pima County Public Defender by Frank P. Leto, Tucson, for appellant.


OPINION

ZLAKET, Justice.

More than twenty years ago, on February 25, 1974, Willie Lee Richmond was sentenced to death. Two decades later, Richmond is still alive and back before this court for the third time. To our knowledge, he is one of the longest-serving death row inmates in the United States. His case presents a classic example of the complex and often obscure rules governing capital sentencing schemes here and elsewhere in this country — rules...

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