Court Opinion

ID: 9543604
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:46:59.464183+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:10:40.534696
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FELDMAN, Chief Justice,
specially concurring.
PROPORTIONALITY REVIEW
I agree with the court’s opinion. We must also conduct a proportionality review to determine whether the death sentence is “excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant.” State v. Amaya-Ruiz, 166 Ariz. 152, 179, 800 P.2d 1260, 1287 (1990), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 111 S.Ct. 2044, 114 L.Ed.2d 129 (1991). Our review indicates that the defendant’s death sentence is proportionate *282to the sentence imposed in comparable cases. See, e.g., State v. White, 168 Ariz. 500, 815 P.2d 869 (1991), cert. denied, — U.S.-, 112 S.Ct. 1199, 117 L.Ed.2d 439 (1992); State v. Poland, 144 Ariz. 388, 698 P.2d 183 (1985), aff'd, 476 U.S. 147, 106 S.Ct. 1749, 90 L.Ed.2d 123 (1986); State v. Carriger, 143 Ariz. 142, 692 P.2d 991 (1984); State v. Ceja, 126 Ariz. 35, 612 P.2d 491 (1980).
CAMERON and GORDON, JJ. (retired), concur in Vice Chief Justice MOELLER’s opinion and Chief Justice FELDMAN’s special concurrence.