I hope the hell they carry it out this time. The reckless actor has not chosen to bring about the killing in the way the intentional actor has. They were driving the Judges van and presumably heading for Mexico, when they ran a roadblock in Pinal County. 283, quoted infra, at ----. . People v. Washington, 62 Cal.2d 777, 783, 44 Cal.Rptr. The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed. . 442, 446, 402 P.2d 130, 134 (1965) (opinion of Traynor, C.J.). Trop v. Dulles, 356 U.S. 86, 101, 78 S.Ct. Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S.Ct. 142 Ariz., at 462, 690 P.2d, at 763; see also App. 1328, 79 L.Ed.2d 723 (1984); Deputy v. State, 500 A.2d 581, 599 (Del.1985) ("Deputy was not solely a participant in the underlying felony, but was instead present during, and involved in, the actual murders"), cert. Unlike Enmund, however, the Tisons will be the first individuals in over 30 years to be executed for such behavior. Two other States also forbid imposition of the death penalty under the general standards announced today, although other aspects of their statutes might render them applicable to these defendants on the facts of this case. By the time their flight ended Id., at 321, 327, 14 Ill.Dec., at 23, 27, 371 N.E.2d, at 1076, 1080. But the decision to execute these petitioners, like the state courts' decisions in Moore, and like other decisions to kill, appears responsive less to reason than to other, more visceral, demands. Raymond later explained that his father "was like in conflict with himself. denied, 470 U.S. 1059, 105 S.Ct. This conclusion supports the verdicts of murder in the first degree on the basis of the felony murder portion of section 782.04(1)(a).' [and] on his culpability." 1774, 84 L.Ed.2d 834 (1985). Six innocent people died at the hands of the Tison Gang. 1328, 79 L.Ed.2d 723 (1984); Deputy v. State, 500 A.2d 581, 599-600 (Del.1985) (defendant present at scene; robbed victims; conflicting evidence as to participation in killing), cert. The Court noted that although 32 American jurisdictions permitted the imposition of the death penalty for felony murders under a variety of circumstances, Florida was 1 of only 8 jurisdictions that authorized the death penalty "solely for participation in a robbery in which another robber takes life." Vermont has further narrowed the circumstances in which it authorizes capital punishment: now only the murderers of correctional officers may be subject to death. 142 Ariz. 446, 448, 690 P.2d 747, 749 (1984). Id., at 21, 75. When the deaths of the Lyons family and Theresa Tyson were first reported, many in Arizona erupted "in a towering yell" for retribution and justice.1 Yet Gary Tison, the central figure in this tragedy, the man who had his family arrange his and Greenawalt's escape from prison, and the man who chose, with Greenawalt, to murder this family while his sons stood by, died of exposure in the desert before society could arrest him and bring him to trial. Enmund was, therefore, sentenced under a distinct minority regime, a regime that permitted the imposition of the death penalty for felony murder simpliciter. We take the facts as the Arizona Supreme Court has given them to us. . Our Constitution demands that the sentencing decision itself, and not merely the procedures that produce it, respond to the reasonable goals of punishment. All six executions took place in 1955." Id., at 788, 102 S.Ct., at 3372. . Arbitrariness continues so to infect both the procedure and substance of capital sentencing that any decision to impose the death penalty remains cruel and unusual. Evidence that a penalty is imposed only infrequently suggests not only that jurisdictions are reluctant to apply it but also that, when it is applied, its imposition is arbitrary and therefore unconstitutional. . On the other hand, it is equally clear that petitioners also fall outside the category of felony murderers for whom Enmund explicitly held the death penalty disproportional: their degree of participation in the crimes was major rather than minor, and the record would support a finding of the culpable mental state of reckless indifference to human life. After a 30 minute gunbattle with police, Randy Greenawalt and the two other Tison boys, Ricky and Raymond, were captured. Petitioner, actively participated in the events leading to death by, inter alia, providing the murder weapons and helping abduct the victims. The Enmund Court was unconvinced "that the threat that the death penalty will be imposed for murder will measurably deter one who does not kill and has no intention or purpose that life will be taken." Tison was sent to Florence prison on a life sentence. WebPENAL LAW: A Web Court Opinions Ricky Wayne TISON and Raymond Curtis Tison, Petitioners v. ARIZONA Supreme Court of the United States 481 U.S. 137, 107 S.Ct. The Florida Supreme Court found the inference that Enmund was the person in the car by the side of the road waiting to help his accomplices escape sufficient to support his sentence of death: " '[T]he only evidence of the degree of [Enmund's] participation is the jury's likely inference that he was the person in the car by the side of the road near the scene of the crimes. Ricky Wayne TISON and Raymond Curtis Tison, Petitioners v. ARIZONA. Today we affirm Ricky and Raymond Tison's convictions and sentences for these crimes in this opinion and in the companion opinion of State v. Raymond Curtis Tison, 129 Ariz. 546, 633 P.2d 355 (1981). Brief for Petitioners 11-12, n. 16. On July 30, 1978, his sons Ricky, Raymond Ray, and Donald Donny smuggled shotguns into the prison and helped Gary. the use of the felony-murder rule allowed the courts to punish the actor in the same manner as if his attempt had succeeded. Id., at 799, 102 S.Ct., at 3377. 1987). They did not plan the breakout or escape; rather their father, after thinking about it himself for a year, mentioned the idea to Raymond for the first time one week before the breakout, and discussed with his sons the possibility of having them participate only the day before the breakout. He shot Thomas at close range, without provocation and as Thomas stood in a helpless position. 12, 10 (1547). Without such channeling, a State could impose a judgment of execution by torture as appropriate retribution for murder by torture.19 Thus, under a simple theory either of deterrence or retribution, unfettered by the Constitution, results disturbing to civil sensibilities and inconsistent with "the evolving standards of decency" in our society become rationally defensible. They discovered guns and money in the Mazda which they kept, and they put the rest of the Lyons' possessions in the Lincoln. In my view, this rejection completes the analytic work necessary to decide this case, and on this basis petitioners' sentences should have been vacated and the judgment reversed. They left in Tisons Ford Galaxy without firing a shot. Ricky and Raymond Tison initially were sentenced to death. The fact that the Arizona Supreme Court purported to find "intent to kill" before affirming death sentences after Enmund provides no support for the proposition that it ordinarily has considered major participation in a violent felony resulting in death combined with a reckless indifference towards human life insufficient to support a capital sentence. One car passed by without stopping, but a second car, a Mazda occupied by John Lyons, his wife Donnelda, his 2-year-old son Christopher, and his 15-year-old niece, Theresa Tyson, pulled over to render aid. It is important to note how attenuated was Enmund's responsibility for the deaths of the victims in that case"), cert. Second, when evaluating such a defendant's mental state, a determination that the defendant acted with intent is qualitatively different from a determination that the defendant acted with reckless indifference to human life. From there, theTison gang managed to get to Colorado, and needed to switch cars. Physical evidence suggested that Theresa Tyson managed to crawl away from the bloodbath, severely injured. Id., at 280-289. Indeed, the trial court recognized the disjunction between the felonies and the murders when it found that Gary Tison's and Greenawalt's decision to murder the family was senseless and unnecessary to the escape. Such punishment might also be defended on the utilitarian ground that it was necessary to satisfy the community's thirst for retribution and thereby keep the peace. Eight people, including Gary Tison and his oldest son, died in the statewide crime spree. Id., at 179, 218-219. In evaluating the trial court's findings of aggravating and mitigating factors, the Arizona Supreme Court found the first aggravating factorcreation of grave risk to othersnot supported by the evidence. 163.095(d), 163.115(1)(b) (1985); Tex. This Court, citing the weight of legislative and community opinion, found a broad societal consensus, with which it agreed, that the death penalty was disproportional to the crime of robbery-felony murder "in these circumstances." At a minimum, however, it can be said that all these jurisdictions, as well as six States which Enmund classified along with Florida as permitting capital punishment for felony murder simpliciter,8 and the three States which simply require some additional aggravation before imposing the death penalty upon a felony murderer,9 specifically authorize the death penalty in a felony-murder case where, though the defendant's mental state fell short of intent to kill, the defendant was a major actor in a felony in which he knew death was highly likely to occur. The Arizona Supreme Court thus attempted to comply with Enmund by making a finding as to petitioners' mental state. Gary Tison, who vowed never to be taken alive, escaped. She was unable to identify any one other than RICKY and . Neither son had a prior felony record. 265, 67 L.Ed. Petitioners entered the prison with a chest filled with guns, armed their father and another convicted murderer, later helped to abduct, detain, and rob a family of four, and watched their father and the other convict murder the members of that family with shotguns. Rick and Raymond and Greenawalt were captured. Join Facebook to connect with Raymond Tison and others you may know. PARA. denied, 469 U.S. 1229, 105 S.Ct. Morissette v. United States, 342 U.S. 246, 250, 72 S.Ct. 1229, 84 L.Ed.2d 366 (1985). Both lived at home with their mother, and visited their father, whom they believed to be "a model prisoner," each week. Participants in violent felonies like armed robberies can frequently "anticipat[e] that lethal force . This evidence suggests that the question of petitioners' mental states with respect to the shootings is very much an open one to be decided only after a thorough evidentiary hearing. Each of petitioners' actions was perfectly consistent with, and indeed necessary to, the felony of stealing a car in order to continue the flight from prison. as equivalent to purposeful and knowing killing." By his own admission he was prepared to kill in furtherance of the prison break. Over 300 police officers and hundreds of volunteers searched for him, but he eluded them. Thomas Brawley, a retired lieutenant of the Coconino County Sheriff's Office, died Wednesday after battling lung cancer. Draft 1980). . Of the 45 murderers then on death row, 36 had been found to have "intended" to take life, and 8 of the 9 for which there was no finding of intent had been the triggerman. Id., at 22-23. Raymond Tison was told that he was to wait by the vehicle and flag someone down to help him with the flat tire. 13-452 (1956) (repealed 1978), and that each participant in the kidnaping or robbery is legally responsible for the acts of his accomplices. But the couple never made it to the game. App. As he received his reprieve from death row, Ricky Tison told the court that he had been manipulated by his father. 13, 2303(b), (c) (Supp.1986). But Gary Tison got away. Despite its earlier holding that petitioners had not killed or intended to kill anyone, the Arizona Supreme Court again upheld the Tisons' sentences. The Model Penal Code advocates replacing the felony-murder rule with a rule that allows a conviction for murder only when the killer acted with intent, purpose, or "recklessness under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life." They were re-sentenced to life in prison,. Gary Tison and Greenawalt actually carried out the murders. "American criminal law has long considered a defendant's intentionand therefore his moral guiltto be critical to the 'degree of [his] criminal culpability.' Had it done so, it would have discovered that, even including the 65 executions since Enmund, "[t]he fact remains that we are not aware of a single person convicted of felony murder over the past quarter century who did not kill or attempt to kill, and did not intend the death of the victim, who has been executed. The Court clearly held that the equally small minority of jurisdictions that limited the death penalty to these circumstances could continue to exact it in accordance with local law when the circumstances warranted. Eight people, including Gary Tison and his oldest son, died in the statewide crime spree. He was 76. Vt.Stat.Ann., Tit. Ore.Rev.Stat. While the States generally have wide discretion in deciding how much retribution to exact in a given case, the death penalty, "unique in its severity and irrevocability," Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 187, 96 S.Ct. 2954, 2965, 57 L.Ed.2d 973 (1978)) (emphasis in original). Furthermore, the court found as an aggravating factor against petitioners the "heinous, cruel and depraved manner" in which Gary Tison and Randy Greenawalt carried out the murders. 1759, 64 L.Ed.2d 398 (1980). 507, 78 L.Ed.2d 697 (1983); Selvage v. State, 680 S.W.2d 17, 22 (Tex.Cr.App.1984) (participant in jewelry store robbery during the course of which a security guard was killed; no evidence that defendant himself shot the guard but he did fire a weapon at those who gave chase); see also Allen v. State, 253 Ga. 390, 395, n. 3, 321 S.E.2d 710, 715, n. 3 (1984) ("The result in [Enmund v. Florida] does not turn on the mere fact that Enmund was convicted of felony murder. Far from merely sitting in a car away from the actual scene of the murders acting as the getaway driver to a robbery, each petitioner was actively involved in every element of the kidnaping-robbery and was physically present during the entire sequence of criminal activity culminating in the murder of the Lyons family and the subsequent flight. Id., at 626-628, 98 S.Ct., at 2984-2985 (emphasis added; footnotes omitted). E.g., Clark v. Louisiana State Penitentiary, 694 F.2d 75 (CA5 1982) (under Louisiana law, jury must find specific intent to kill); People v. Garcia, 36 Cal.3d 539, 205 Cal.Rptr. Under the lower court's standard, any participant in a violent felony during which a killing occurred, including Enmund, would be liable for the death penalty. . Maricopa County 1981). After two nights at the house, the group drove toward Flagstaff. If it does not so contribute, it " 'is nothing more than the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering' and hence an unconstitutional punishment." Following sensational and much-publicized trials, Raymond and Ricky Tison were convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and various counts of armed robbery, kidnapping and motor. So rarely does any State (let alone any Western country other than our own) ever execute a person who neither killed nor intended to kill that "these death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual." 6, ch. The Court observed that, in imposing the death penalty upon Enmund, the Florida Supreme Court had failed to focus on "Enmund's own conduct . See ALI, Model Penal Code Commentaries 210.2, p. 13 (Off. they had to consider all aspects of the case to determine if it was a just punishment. The question this case presents is what punishment Arizona may constitutionally exact from two of Gary Tison's sons for their role in these events. Nothing in the record suggests that any of their actions were inconsistent with that aim. hcg wert viel zu niedrig; flohmarkt kilegg 2021. fhrerschein in tschechien trotz mpu; kartoffeltaschen mit schinken und kse 1939) ("Thy fathers' sins, O Roman, thou, though guiltless, shall expiate"); W. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene 5, line 1 ("Yes, truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children"); H. Ibsen, Ghosts (1881). 689, 88 L.Ed.2d 704 (1986). A survey of state felony murder laws and judicial decisions after Enmund indicates a societal consensus that that combination of factors may justify the death penalty even without a specific "intent to kill." Ibid. The question presented is whether the petitioners' participation in the events leading up to and following the murder of four members of a family makes the sentences of death imposed by the Arizona courts constitutionally permissible although neither petitioner specifically intended to kill the victims and neither inflicted the fatal gunshot wounds. Audit . . Greenawalt drew an X on the door near the head of the sleeping trucker, then fired a shot through the door. Enmund does not specifically address this point. "In the present case the evidence does not show that petitioner killed or attempted to kill. At one pole was Enmund himself: the minor actor in an armed robbery, not on the scene, who neither intended to kill nor was found to have had any culpable mental state. 12/02/2020 . 283. Arizona law enforcement mobilized the largest manhunt in state history. (equating intent with purposeful conduct); see also Perkins, A Rationale of Mens Rea, 52 Harv.L.Rev. 3 Pa. Laws 1794, ch. Raymond did so, and, while the others guarded the Lyons and Theresa Tyson, Gary fired his shotgun into the radiator, presumably to completely disable the vehicle. The Court then remands the case for a determination by the state court whether petitioners are culpable under this new standard. 459 U.S. 882, 103 S.Ct. The case went cold, and no suspect was arrested. 3001, 3011, 77 L.Ed.2d 637 (1983), the Court summarized the essence of the inquiry: "In sum, a court's proportionality analysis under the Eighth Amendment should be guided by objective criteria, including (i) the gravity of the offense and the harshness of the penalty; (ii) the sentences imposed on other criminals in the same jurisdiction; and (iii) the sentences imposed for commission of the same crime in other jurisdictions." This case thus demonstrates, as Furman also did, that we have yet to achieve a system capable of "distinguishing the few cases in which the [death penalty] is imposed from the many cases in which it is not." 180, 74 L.Ed.2d 147 (1982). 2909, 2931, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976), requires the State to inquire into the relevant facets of "the character and record of the individual offender." In this case, the State appears to have afforded petitioners all of the procedures that this Court has deemed sufficient to produce constitutional sentencing decisions. Over time, malice aforethought came to be inferred from the mere act of killing in a variety of circumstances; in reaction, Pennsylvania became the first American jurisdiction to distinguish between degrees of murder, reserving capital punishment to "wilful, deliberate and premeditated" killings and felony murders. in accomplishing the underlying felony." (emphasis added). Rev. See Cabana v. Bullock, 474 U.S., at 397-407, 106 S.Ct., at 702-708 (BLACKMUN, J., dissenting); id., at 407-408, 106 S.Ct., at 708-709 (STEVENS, J., dissenting). With regard to deterrence, the Court was "quite unconvinced . But the fact that this Court's death penalty jurisprudence can validate different results in analytically indistinguishable cases suggests that something more profoundly disturbing than faithlessness to precedent is at work in capital sentencing. Cf. Looking for Ricky Raymond online? See Brief for Petitioners 3 (citing Tr. Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 308, 92 S.Ct. And I feel bad about it happening. In reversing the Florida Supreme Court, this Court took note of the "overwhelming evidence" of "[s]ociety's rejection of the death penalty for accomplice liability in felony murders." . for Cert. John Lyons asked the Tisons and Greenawalt to "[g]ive us some water . One such principle is that the States may not impose punishment that is disproportionate to the severity of the offense or to the individual's own conduct and culpability. What would be relevant, and what the summary in Enmund does not tell us, is how many of the 41 who did not participate were also found not to have intended that the murder occur. pending, No. Wanton killings are generally regarded as among the most wicked, and the feature that makes a killing wanton is precisely the absence of detached reflection before the deed. Ricky and Raymond Tison initially were sentenced to death. 23 Hen. Penal Code Ann. On July 30, 1978, the three Tison brothers entered the Arizona State Prison at Florence carrying a large ice chest filled with guns. The Tison gang terrorized Arizona in the summer of 1978. Given the question it had chosen to address, evidence regarding petitioners' actual mental states with regard to the shooting was superfluous. For example, we do not doubt that there are some felonies as to which one could properly conclude that any major participant necessarily exhibits reckless indifference to the value of human life. The cases since Enmund in which the Arizona Supreme Court has rejected the defendant's Enmund challenge and affirmed the death sentence are: State v. Correll, 148 Ariz. 468, 478, 715 P.2d 721, 731 (1986) (defendant intended to kill victims and "verbally encouraged" codefendant to proceed with killing); State v. Martinez-Villareal, 145 Ariz. 441, 702 P.2d 670 (defendant actively took part in the murder and intended to kill), cert. Although the Court suggests otherwise, ante, at 155 156, n. 11, in none of these cases does the Arizona Supreme Court's finding of intent appear to rest, as it did here, on a finding that a killing was merely foreseeable. For this reason, as well as for the reasons expressed in Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S., at 227, 96 S.Ct., at 2971, I adhere to my view that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and dissent. This Court therefore properly rejects today the lower court's misguided attempt to preserve its earlier judgment by equating intent with foreseeable harm. In any given case, the Court said, the death penalty must "measurably contribut[e]" to one or both of the two "social purposes"deterrence and retributionwhich this Court has accepted as justifications for the death penalty. 142 Ariz. 446, 448, 690 P.2d 747, 749 (1984); 142 Ariz., at 456, 690 P.2d, at 757. The Arizona Supreme Court, however, upheld the "pecuniary gain" and "heinousness" aggravating circumstances and the death sentences. ); see also Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S. 104, 102 S.Ct. We accept this as true. 607, 83 L.Ed.2d 716 (1984); Skillern v. Estelle, 720 F.2d 839, 844 (CA5 1983) (evidence supports finding that Skillern agreed and "plotted in advance" to kill the eventual victim), cert. 136, 161, 447 N.E.2d 353, 378 (defendant present at the scene and had participated in other crimes with Holman, the triggerman, during which Holman had killed under similar circumstances), cert. The difference lies in the nature of the choice each has made. " 458 U.S., at 800, 102 S.Ct., at 3378 (citation omitted). The statute set out six aggravating and four mitigating factors. While Ricky was talking with his father, his brothers pulled a sawed-off shotgun out of an ice chest they were carrying. Pittsburgh, PA RAYMOND TISON OBITUARY Raymond R. Tison, of West Mifflin, passed away peacefully Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, after a long and hard-fought battle with multiple blood disorders. Despite finding that petitioners did not specifically intend that the victims die, plan the homicides in advance, or actually fire the shots, the court ruled that the requisite intent was established by evidence that petitioners played an active part in planning and executing the breakout and in the events that lead to the murders, and that they did nothing to interfere with the killings nor to disassociate themselves from the killers afterward. Nouvelle rgle 2020 Carte de France 2020. Caption:Tisonv.Arizona(U.S.1987) Facts . Petitioner played an active part in the events that led to the murders. denied, 469 U.S. 1230, 105 S.Ct. Id., at 20-21, 74. 142 Ariz. 446, 690 P.2d 747, and 142 Ariz. 454, 690 P.2d 755, vacated and remanded. . A divided Arizona Supreme Court, interpreting Enmund to require a finding of "intent to kill," declared in Raymond Tison's case "the dictate of Enmund is satisfied," writing: "Intend [sic ] to kill includes the situation in which the defendant intended, contemplated, or anticipated that lethal force would or might be used or that life would or might be taken in accomplishing the underlying felony. Seven years later, Tison was accused of violating his parole by writing a bad check. 15A-2000(f)(4) (1983). denied, 474 U.S. 1073, 106 S.Ct. The capital murder charges were based on Arizona felony-murder law providing that a killing occurring during the perpetration of robbery or kidnaping is capital murder, Ariz.Rev.Stat.Ann. The Court does not attempt to conduct a proportionality review of the kind performed in past cases raising a proportionality question, e.g., Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 103 S.Ct. . All those killed were intended victims, and no one else was endangered. Although only one of the petitioners testified that he would have been willing to kill, the court found that both of them could have anticipated the use of lethal force. 50-51, 91. The father fled. Gary Tison escaped into the desert where he subsequently died of exposure. App. "I do believe that their father, Gary Tison, exerted a strong, consistent, destructive but subtle pressure upon these youngsters and I believe that these young men got committed to an act which was essentially 'over their heads.' 2861, 53 L.Ed.2d 982 (1977), but instead offers two reasons in support of its view. In Enmund v. Florida, the Court recognized again the importance of mental state, explicitly permitting the death penalty in at least those cases where the felony murderer intended to kill and forbidding it in the case of a minor actor not shown to have had any culpable mental state. The prosecutor argued to the jury that it did not matter that Gary Tison and Randy Greenawalt had caused the killings, because under the felony-murder rule the Tisons could nonetheless be found legally responsible for those killings. The Court has chosen instead to announce a new substantive standard for capital liability: a defendant's "major participation in the felony committed, combined with reckless indifference to human life, is sufficient to satisfy the Enmund culpability requirement." . to us," ante, at 151, is improper.5 By limiting itself to the facts the lower court found relevant to the foreseeability standard, this Court insulates itself from other evidence in the record directly relevant to the new standard articulated today. . Enmund himself may well have so anticipated. Tison v. Arizona Facts Gary Tison was an inmate serving a sentence of life imprisonment for killing a guard during an attempted. John and Alice Steal Some Tires Only To Be Arrested and Charged with First-Degree Murder . They were convicted of felony murder in 1979 and sentenced to death. And an intuition that sons and daughters must sometimes be punished for the sins of the father may be deeply rooted in our consciousness.20 Yet punishment that conforms more closely to such retributive instincts than to the Eighth Amendment is tragicly anachronistic in a society governed by our Constitution. Information available through ArrestFacts.com is provided for informational purposes only. The Court's failure to examine the full range of relevant evidence is troubling not simply because of what that examination would have revealed, but because until today such an examination has been treated as constitutionally required whenever the Court undertakes to determine whether a given punishment is disproportionate to the severity of a given crime. Stat. The two cars were parked trunk to trunk and the Lyons family was ordered to stand in front of the Lincoln's headlights. At the house, the Lincoln automobile had a flat tire; the only spare tire was pressed into service. 1182, 89 L.Ed.2d 299 (1986).2. 793 (1910) (quoting O'Neil v. Vermont, 144 U.S. 323, 339-340, 12 S.Ct. "Enmund did not kill or intend to kill and thus his culpability is plainly different from that of the robbers who killed; yet the State treated them alike and attributed to Enmund the culpability of those who killed the Kerseys. Ariz.Rev.Stat.Ann. 2726, 2761, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972) (Stewart, J., concurring). The Court found that of all executions between 1954 and 1982, there were "only 6 cases out of 362 where a nontriggerman felony murderer was executed. A massive manhunt in Arizona ended on Aug. 11, 1978, when the gang ran a police road block near Casa Grande. They carry it out this time where he subsequently died of exposure never made it to shooting! 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