Court Opinion

ID: 9541398
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:25:04.882314+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:02:49.451326
License: Public Domain

GORDON, Vice Chief Justice
(concurring in part and dissenting in part):
The killing of a mentally retarded woman under these circumstances and in this fashion satisfies me that it was done in an especially heinous or depraved manner and constituted an aggravating factor under A.R.S. § 13-703(F)(6). I also agree that no mitigating circumstances existed sufficiently substantial to call for leniency. Therefore, I concur in the correctness of the imposition of the sentence of death in this matter. However, to be faithful to my position in dissent in State v. Clark, 126 Ariz. 428, 616 P.2d 888 (1980), I cannot agree with the majority’s interpretation of the aggravating circumstance concerning pecuniary gain.