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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·JANUARY 15, 2009

USA - Arizona. Wayne Prince was sentenced to death

USA - Arizona. Wayne Prince was sentenced to death

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Wayne Prince was sentenced to death for the 2nd time in Maricopa County Superior Court. Prince, 37, was convicted in 2000 of shooting to death his 13-year-old stepdaughter, Cassie Parker, 2 years earlier during an argument with the girl's mother. He was sentenced to death by a Superior Court judge. But in 2002, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered that juries and not judges determine if there are sufficient aggravating factors to sentence a murderer to death. Prince was one of about 30 Arizonans on death row whose conviction was upheld but who was granted a new trial to review his death sentence. Prince went back to court in August 2007. That trial ended with a jury unable to decide whether he deserved a life or a death sentence. The 2nd sentencing trial began in November.
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  • (source: Arizona Republic, 15/01/2009)