Philip Bocharski will die for the May 1995 stabbing death of 84-year-old Freeda Brown.

Philip Bocharski will die for the May 1995 stabbing death of 84-year-old Freeda Brown.
Yavapai County's jury decided that the death penalty is an appropriate punishment for the 44-year-old defendant despite a tremendous number of mitigating factors that the defense presented for consideration of leniency.
Yavapai County Superior Court Judge William Kiger accepted the verdict and sentenced Bocharski to death.
Kiger sentenced Bocharski to death after another jury convicted him of 1st-degree murder in 1996.
The Arizona Supreme Court overturned that decision in 2002, giving Bocharski's lawyers, Tom Kelly and Ray Hanna, another chance to convince a jury that substantial mitigating factors exist to warrant leniency for their client.
The state's highest court sent the case back to the trial court to conduct a re-sentencing stage of the trial. Meanwhile, another ruling came down from the U.S. Supreme Court, requiring a jury rather than a judge determine if a defendant deserves the death penalty.