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    Thomas Riley - Arizona Death Row





    Summary of Offense:

    Convicted of first-degree murder out of Maricopa County for a June 28, 2008 slaying.

    https://corrections.az.gov/public-resources/death-row
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    On June 29, 2008, the Defendant and his cellmate, Co-defendant Dennis Levis, planned to murder the victim so that they could become patched members of the Aryan Brotherhood. This Defendant was the primary planner of the murder and after religious services he and his cellmate crossed into the pod where the victim was housed. They met up with a third accomplice and entered into the cell of the victim. The Defendant and his accomplices then stabbed the unarmed victim 114 times, killing him. Eighteen months after the murder prison officials intercepted a letter written by the Defendant where he described in detail the murder, as well as relished in the death of the victim, describing the last breath of the victim as a “defining moment” in the Defendant’s life. The Defendant subsequently became a patched member of the Aryan Brotherhood. The Defendant was found guilty and sentenced him to death.

    https://www.maricopacountyattorney.o...ewFile/Item/66
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    Distributed for conference September 29, 2020.

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/19-8660.html
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    In today's orders, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Riley's petition for certiorari.

    Lower Ct: Supreme Court of Arizona
    Case Numbers: (CR-15-0411-AP)
    Decision Date: March 10, 2020

    https://www.supremecourt.gov/search....c/19-8660.html
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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