Facts of the Crime:
Sometime between March 11 and March 14, 1980, Smith, Joe Leonard Lambright and Kathy Foreman picked up Sandra Owen, a young woman with mental problems, who was hitchhiking in the Tucson area. Smith raped Ms. Owen twice and the group took her to a remote area in the mountains outside Tucson. Lambright and Smith then killed the victim by choking her, stabbing her and hitting her in the head with a large rock. They concealed her body by covering it with rocks and the body was not discovered until one year later. Lambright and Smith were tried in a joint trial before two separate juries. Ms. Foreman testified against them in exchange for a grant of immunity.
Smith was sentenced to death on May 27, 1982.
Lambright was also sentenced to death. For more on Lambright, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...zona-Death-Row
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