Justices say jurors in the case against John Montenegro Cruz were wrongly told that the only way to ensure Cruz would never walk free was to sentence him to death. Cruz was convicted in the 2003 murder of a Tucson…
The Associated Press The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a man on Arizona's death row should be resentenced because jurors in his case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure he would never walk free was to sentence him to death.
The case is important not only for Cruz, but also for other Arizona death row inmates whose juries received similar misinformation. Arizona currently has approximately 100 people on its death row. It was not clear how many of those might be eligible for a new sentencing hearing. People are also reading… At least one juror has said that had she known that a “life sentence without parole” was an alternative to death, she “would have voted for that option.”
A 1994 Supreme Court case, Simmons v. South Carolina, says that in certain death penalty cases, jurors must be told that choosing a life sentence means life without the possibility of parole. That’s required when prosecutors argue that the defendant will pose a threat to society in the future.
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