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Wayne Prince Arizona Death Row

Wayne Prince was sentenced to death by the State of Arizona for the murder of a child. According to court documents Wayne Prince was involved in an argument with his wife where Wayne promised to shoot the children, his wife and then himself. Wayne Price would shoot and kill thirteen year old Cassandra Prince while her mother attempted to protect her. Wayne would then shoot his wife Christine who thankfully would survive her injuries. Wayne Prince would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death.

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SPC Florence, Central Unit
PO Box 8200
WAYNE B. PRINCE 151897
Florence, AZ 85132
United States

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On March 25, 1998, Prince and his wife, Christine, were arguing in the apartment where they lived with Christine’s two children, Cassandra (age 13) and Andrew (age 10). Prince, pointing a handgun at Christine and Cassandra, repeatedly said he was going to kill the children, Christine, and then himself. Prince threw Cassandra to the floor when she tried to escape. Cassandra retreated to her room as Prince brutally beat Christine. Prince shoved Christine into Casandra’s bedroom, then aimed the gun at Cassandra. Christine placed herself between the gun and her daughter and pled for Cassandra’s life. Prince punched Christine in the face, then shot Cassandra in the head. As Christine yelled for help, Prince shot her in the neck. The gun jammed after the second shot, prompting Prince to flee. Cassandra died, but Christine survived. A jury found Prince guilty of murdering Cassandra, and attempting to murder Christine.

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A Glendale man has received the death penalty a second time for the shooting of his teenage stepdaughter during a family fight 11 years ago.

A jury set the death sentence Thursday for Wayne Benoit Price, 37. He was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Cassandra Parker, 13, his stepdaughter, and attempted first-degree murder for the shooting of his wife, Christie Prince. The two were shot during a domestic violence argument on March 25, 1998.

Prince initially was convicted and sentenced to death in 1999. But, he was granted a new trial under a 2002 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that juries, not judges, must decide aggravating circumstances in death penalty cases.

A jury was unable to decide last August whether Prince should be sentenced to life or death. Another jury began hearing aggravating factors in November and came back with a death sentence Thursday.

Court records showed that Prince and his wife got into a violent argument at the Glendale townhouse in March 1998. Prince’s stepdaughter tried to flee the apartment, but Prince prevented her from leaving. During the fight, police said Prince covered his gun with a pillow, walked up to the girl, put the gun against her head and shot her. When his wife broke a window to call for help, he shot her on the side of the face.

Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said Thursday’s verdict “represents a just punishment for the defendant. It is unfortunate that the victim’s family had to wait so long for this case to come to a close.”

Robert Poyson Arizona Death Row

Robert Poyson was sentenced to death by the State of Arizona for a murder. According to court documents Robert Poyson would murder three people during a robbery. Robert Poyson was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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ASPC Florence, Central Unit
PO Box 8200
ROBERT A. POYSON 140419
Florence, AZ 85132
United States

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Leta Kagen (30), Leta’s 15-year-old son, Robert Delahunt, Roland Wear (50) and Bobby Poyson (20) lived in a remote area of Mohave County. On August 13, 1996, Frank Anderson (48) and Kimberly Lane (15) had been hitchhiking in the area, and Leta agreed to let Anderson and Lane spend the night. Anderson, Poyson, and Lane decided to kill Leta, Robert, and Roland, and steal Roland’s truck. Lane enticed Robert into a travel trailer on the property, where Anderson cut Robert’s throat nearly from ear to ear with a bread knife. Anderson held the struggling boy down, while Poyson pounded the bread knife through Robert’s ear, and out his mouth. Poyson finally ended Robert’s struggling by crushing his skull with a rock. Three to four hours later, Anderson and Poyson entered Leta’s mobile home, and Poyson killed her by shooting her in the head with a rifle, as Anderson held a lantern for light. Roland awoke, and Poyson shot him in the mouth. Poyson then hit Roland with the rifle stock, and Anderson hit him with the lantern. Roland and Poyson struggled out into the yard, where Poyson bludgeoned Roland to death with a cinder block.

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Poyson met Leta Kagen, her fifteen year-old son, Robert Delahunt, and Roland Wear in April of 1996. The defendant was then nineteen years old and homeless. Kagen allowed him to stay with her and the others at their trailer in Golden Valley, near Kingman, Arizona. In August of the same year, Kagen was introduced to forty-eight year-old Frank Anderson and his fourteen year-old girlfriend, Kimberly Lane. They, too, needed a place to live, and Kagen invited them to stay at the trailer.

¶ 3 Anderson informed the Robert Poyson that he was eager to travel to Chicago, where he claimed to have organized crime connections. Because none of them had a way of getting to Chicago, Anderson, Poyson and Lane formulated a plan to kill Kagen, Delahunt, and Wear in order to steal the latter’s truck.

¶ 4 On the evening of August 13, 1996, Lane lured Delahunt into a small travel trailer on the property, ostensibly for sex. There, Anderson commenced an attack on the boy by slitting his throat with a bread knife. Poyson heard Delahunt’s screams and ran to the travel trailer. While Anderson held Delahunt down, the defendant bashed his head against the floor. He also beat the victim’s head with his fists, and pounded it with a rock. This, however, did not kill Delahunt, so Poyson took the bread knife and drove it through his ear. Although the blade penetrated the victim’s skull and exited through his nose, the wound was not fatal. Robert Poyson thereafter continued to slam Delahunt’s head against the floor until he lost consciousness. According to the medical examiner, Delahunt died of massive blunt force head trauma. In all, the attack lasted about 45 minutes. Remarkably, Kagen and Wear, who were in the main trailer with the radio on, never heard the commotion coming from the small trailer.

¶ 5 After cleaning themselves up, Poyson and Anderson prepared to kill Kagen and Wear. They first located Wear’s .22 caliber rifle. Unable to find any ammunition, the defendant borrowed two rounds from a young girl who lived next door, telling her that Delahunt was in the desert surrounded by snakes and the bullets were needed to help rescue him. Robert Poyson loaded the rifle and tested it for about five minutes to make sure it would function properly. He then stashed it near a shed. Later that evening, he cut the telephone line to the trailer so that neither of the remaining victims could call for help.

¶ 6 After Kagen and Wear were asleep, Poyson and Anderson went into their bedroom. Defendant first shot Kagen in the head, killing her instantly. After quickly reloading the rifle, he shot Wear in the mouth, shattering his upper right teeth. A struggle ensued, during which the defendant repeatedly clubbed Wear in the head with the rifle. The fracas eventually moved outside. At some point, Anderson threw a cinder block at Wear, hitting him in the back and knocking him to the ground. While the victim was lying there, the defendant twice kicked him in the head. He then picked up the cinder block and threw it several times at Wear’s head. After Wear stopped moving, the defendant took his wallet and the keys to his truck. In order to conceal the body, the defendant covered it with debris from the yard. Poyson, Anderson, and Lane then took the truck and traveled to Illinois, where they were apprehended several days later.

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Christopher Payne Arizona Death Row

Christopher Payne was sentenced to death by the State of Arizona for the murders of two children. According to court documents the body of four year old Ariana was found decomposing in a storage bin in a storage locker. The body of her three year old brother Tyler was never found. Their Father Christopher Payne would be charged and convicted in both murders and be sentenced to death.

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ASPC Florence, Central Unit
PO Box 8200
CHRISTOPHER M. PAYNE 242196
Florence, AZ 85132
United States

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In January of 2002, Payne married Jamie Hallam. They had two children, Tyler, born in 2001 and Ariana, born in 2002. Shortly after Ariana was born, Payne and Jaime divorced and she got sole custody of the children. Jamie had been investigated by CPS for reports of meth use and domestic violence and in 2006, CPS agreed that the children be in Payne’s custody. At that time, Payne and his girlfriend Reina Gonzalez had an apartment together, and they were both heroin addicts. In February of 2007, there was a delinquent storage unit at a Tucson storage facility called U-Store-It, and the manager opened the unit and cleared the contents. There was a large Rubbermaid tub with a foul smell in the unit which the manager decided to throw in the dumpster. When she did, the lid opened and bugs flew out; there was a bag with liquid in it. The manager called police and they subsequently determined that the tub contained the remains of 4-year-old Ariana. The police investigation led to the arrests of both Payne and his girlfriend Reina. Initially, Reina told police she had no knowledge of the deaths. Reina eventually pled guilty to two counts of second degree murder and her testimony at trial revealed that Tyler and Ariana were severely abused, neglected, beaten, starved, and locked in the closet for long periods of time while she and Payne abused heroin. When Payne found Ariana lifeless one evening, and after failing to resuscitate her, he put Ariana in the closet and he and Reina went to abuse more heroin. In September of 2006, Chris paid a drug acquaintance to rent a storage unit where the remains of Ariana were ultimately found. Tyler’s remains were never found. Chris was sentenced to death for the two murders. Reina was sentenced to two consecutive 22 year terms.

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Christopher Mathew Payne and his girlfriend, Reina Gonzales, starved and abused Payne’s children, Ariana, age 3, and Tyler, age 4, until they died.

¶ 3 Payne left Ariana and Tyler with Gonzales while he worked, first driving for a medical transportation company and later selling heroin. Gonzales called Payne at work several times a day to complain about the children, even purportedly threatening to kill them if Payne did not make them behave.

¶ 4 Payne began punishing Ariana and Tyler by locking them in a closet while he was away. By late June 2006, the children were kept in the closet permanently. Payne initially fed them sandwiches once a day, but after about a month, he stopped feeding them at all. Payne checked on the children perhaps once a day, but he did not bathe them or let them out to use the bathroom or get fresh air.

¶ 5 Sometime in August 2006, Payne discovered that Ariana had died. He nonetheless left her in the closet with Tyler, who was still alive. The next day, Payne stuffed Ariana’s body into a duffel bag, which he eventually put back in the closet with Tyler. Payne found Tyler dead approximately one week later.

¶ 6 In mid-September, Payne put the children’s bodies in a blue tote box, which he placed in a rented storage unit. After Payne failed to pay the rental fee, staff opened the unit. They found only the tote inside, which they said smelled “really bad,” so they threw it in a dumpster. A staff member became concerned about the smell and called the police two days later.

¶ 7 The police found Ariana’s partially decomposed body inside the tote. She had twelve broken ribs, a broken spine, and a broken shoulder. After finding Ariana’s body, the police did not search the dumpster further. The investigation led police to Payne and Gonzales, whom they located at a motel. The officers asked Payne to accompany them to the station to answer questions, but he refused to go without his attorney. They then arrested him on an unrelated warrant.

¶ 8 At the station, Christopher Payne confessed to not obtaining help for the children and allowing them to die in his care. Police never found Tyler’s body. In searching Payne’s former apartment, police found blood on the walls inside the closet, an opening in the closet wall stuffed with feces and human hair, and several patches of body fluids on the carpet.

¶ 9 The State charged Christopher Payne and Gonzales with first degree murder and other crimes. In exchange for testifying, the State allowed Gonzales to plead guilty to two counts of second degree murder, for which she was given concurrent 22–year prison sentences. The jury found Payne guilty of three counts of child abuse, two counts of concealing a dead body, and two counts of first degree murder. The jury also found three aggravating factors: especial cruelty, heinousness, or depravity, A.R.S. § 13–751(F)(6); multiple homicides, id. § 13–751(F)(8); and young age of the victims, id. § 13–751(F)(9). This automatic appeal followed the imposition of death sentences for the two murders.

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Isiah Patterson Arizona Death Row

Isiah Patterson was sentenced to death by the State of Arizona for the murder of his girlfriend. According to court documents Isiah Patterson would call 911 and say that he had done something terrible. When police arrived they would find his girlfriend dead from stab wounds. Isiah Patterson would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

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ASPC Florence, Central Unit
PO Box 8200
ISIAH PATTERSON 248818
Florence, AZ 85132
United States

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Isiah Patterson was sentenced to death for the 2006 murder of his girlfriend, Consquelo Barker. On March 17, 2006, Mesa police were called to Patterson’s home after receiving reports of a man and woman fighting. Patterson himself called 911 and hung up. He then called 911 again and said “You had better get here quick. I just did something bad with a butcher knife.” When Police arrived, they found 32 year old Consquelo brutally stabbed to death. The couple’s 3 year old son was inside the home at the time of the murder.

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At approximately 1:30 a.m. on March 17, 2006, Patterson and Consquelo, his girlfriend, were in his Mesa apartment with their three-year-old son when they began fighting.² A downstairs neighbor heard loud crashes and things rolling on the floor. After about ten minutes, the noises stopped. After another ten minutes or so had passed, Consquelo ran from the apartment, naked and screaming for help.

¶ 3 Patterson chased Consquelo through the outdoor common areas of the apartment complex. He caught her at a sand volleyball pit, sat over her, and stabbed her thirteen times in the face, torso, and arm. The wounds perforated her lungs, diaphragm and spleen, and fractured her arm. Patterson continued stabbing Consquelo until a neighbor, awakened by her screams, yelled for him to stop. Consquelo then stumbled from the volleyball pit, asking for help before collapsing beneath a bush, where she died. Patterson walked back toward his apartment, telling neighbors, “That’s what happens when you try to turn a whore into a housewife.”

¶ 4 Patterson was arrested and indicted for Consquelo’s murder. The State sought the death penalty. Finding Patterson guilty and that the crime was especially cruel, see A.R.S. § 13–751(F)(6), the jury determined he should be sentenced to death.

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Steven Parker Arizona Death Row

Steven Parker was sentenced to death by the State of Arizona for the murder of a couple. According to court documents Steven Parker would murder the couple who lived next door to him, stole a number of possessions and their vehicle and fled the State. Steven Parker would be arrested in Nevada and extradited back to Arizona where he was convicted and sentenced to death.

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ASPC Florence, Central Unit
PO Box 8200
STEVEN J. PARKER 253735
Florence, AZ 85132
United States

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Steven John Parker was sentenced to death for the murders of Wayne and Faye Smith. According to police, the couple was found stabbed and beaten to death in their Phoenix home on September 24, 2005. The home had also been burglarized. Parker lived next door to the Smith’s at the time of the murders. The investigation revealed Parker borrowed a car and drove to California and then Mexico. The vehicle was eventually abandoned in San Diego. Parker was later arrested in Las Vegas and charged with the double homicide

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Wayne and Faye Smith were found murdered in their home on September 26, 2005. Faye’s ankles were bound, and she had been stabbed to death. Wayne also had been stabbed several times, but died from blunt force trauma to his head. The medical examiner could not determine the time of death for either victim, but they were last seen alive two days earlier, on September 24.

¶ 3 Wayne’s wallet and Faye’s purse were missing from the home. On September 24, 2005, between 4:50 and 5:30 p.m., someone used the Smiths’ credit and bank cards at several locations near their home. The next day, the cards were used at an ATM in Quartzsite, Arizona, and at a gas station in Temecula, California.

¶ 4 At the time of the murders, Parker lived next door to the Smiths with a roommate, Tasha Uhl. On September 24, the likely day of the murders, Uhl could not find Parker around 2:30 or 3:00 in the afternoon, despite calling for him both inside and outside the house. Parker later came in and told Uhl he had been doing yard work and had not heard her call. Uhl left around 5:00 p.m., and Parker’s girlfriend picked him up from the house just over an hour later. The two were together until the morning of Sunday, September 25.

¶ 5 That day, Parker left in Uhl’s car without her permission. At the time, Parker owed money to his employer. He drove to Mexico and then to California. He abandoned the car in San Diego and hitched a ride to Chino, California, where friends told him he was a “person of interest” in the Smiths’ murders. Parker then took a bus to Las Vegas, where he remained for four days until he was arrested and jailed on October 13, 2005. Police questioned Parker about the murders, but charged him only with stealing Uhl’s car and his employer’s money. Parker eventually pleaded guilty to stealing from his employer and was sentenced to probation.

¶ 6 Shortly after Parker’s release from jail, testing revealed that Parker’s DNA matched DNA from a drop of blood found on the Smiths’ kitchen sink and DNA from a napkin found on the kitchen counter. Police arrested Parker again on May 26, 2006, and charged him with the murders, first degree burglary, and kidnapping.

¶ 7 At trial, Parker testified that he was not involved in the crimes and asserted that another man killed the Smiths. The jury found him guilty of all charges. The jury also found three aggravating factors: pecuniary gain, A.R.S. § 13–751(F)(5); especial cruelty, id. § 13–751(F)(6); and multiple homicides, id. § 13–751(F)(8). After finding no mitigation sufficient to call for leniency, the jury determined that Parker should be sentenced to death for each murder.

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