Kenneth Wayne Thompson - Arizona

[Mike]

The DR inmates have jobs some I'm assuming they must be mixed in with other higher security inmates.

[Bobsicles]

Arizona death row inmates used to be in 24/7 solitary but they got more privileges after they sued the state

[Aaron]

At least someone on AZ death row was finally killed

[Bobsicles]

I wonder if this will end up sending Arizona death row inmates back into 24-hour solitary confinement.

[Helen]

Arizona court upholds convictions, sentences of slain death-row inmate

The Arizona Supreme Court on Jan. 19 upheld the convictions and sentences of a death row inmate who himself was killed in his prison cell last month.

Criminal prosecutions normally stop upon a defendant’s death, but the state high court said it issued its decision on an appeal for Kenneth Wayne Thompson II even after his death "because resolution of many issues in this case would assist parties and courts in future cases."

Thompson, 38, was found dead at the Eyman prison complex in Florence last month.

Thompson, who lived in the Ozarks region of Missouri, was convicted in 2019 of using a hatchet and a knife to kill his sister-in-law, Penelope Edwards, and her boyfriend, Troy Dunn, in Yavapai County in 2012. He then poured acid on the bodies and set their house on fire.

Issues in his appeal included the basis for a search of his vehicle, how prospective jurors were questioned and constitutionality of Arizona’s first-degree felony murder law, which the justices upheld in their decision.

Thompson was convicted of 1st-degree premeditated murder and felony murder in both killings. He also was convicted of burglary and arson.

(source: Fox News)

[Mike]

It appears that he was murdered by DR inmates Pete Vanwinkle and Tracy Allen Hampton who both on have 1st Degree Murder logged on their infraction's sheets for 12/29/2021 which is the exact day that this murder occurred. They were both working in the building where Thompson was killed as well and removed off the detail the day of the murder. And both were reclassified to Close as for security risk meaning they can't be housed with any other inmates nor interact with any unsupervised.

Their verdict in this was guilty for both by their security officers so I assume at this point they are both being held in segregation until a decision will be made as to whether or not the state is going for death for both of them.

Both of these two inmates are members of the Aryan Brotherhood. Pretty much guaranteed this was gang related.