a death-row inmate who admitted to killing his 2-year-old daughter...

a death-row inmate who admitted to killing his 2-year-old daughter by setting her on fire will get another chance to avoid execution. The Arizona Supreme Court unanimously decided that Shawn Grell did not give up his right to a jury sentencing when he waived his right to a jury trial in 2000.
Grell admitted that on Dec. 2, 1999, he picked up his daughter Kristen Salem from day care, took her to a remote place, laid the sleeping baby down in the dirt, splashed gasoline on her and lit a match.
Grell turned himself in a few hours later. He decided to let Judge Barbara Jarrett of Maricopa County Superior Court decide his guilt rather than a jury. Grell and the state agreed upon a certain set of facts to present to Jarrett, and she convicted him of 1st-degree murder.
The agreement contained a provision that said he wouldn't give up any rights he "may have" to a jury sentencing.
But Jarrett denied Grell's request for a jury sentencing, and she condemned him July 9, 2001 (see), but a year later the U.S. Supreme Court declared Arizona's law of judges determining death rather than juries unconstitutional.