Tison v. Arizona

Donny, Ricky and Raymond have always seen their father in jail. This time he was in jail for breaking parole and doing a string of robberies. Their mother always brought them to the prison for weekly visits with their father, which would lead to his having a significant influence over them, even though he only saw them once a week. Once again he was paroled and broke his parole. He was on his way back …showed first 75 words of 1839 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1839 total…be put to death when he was at the scene, not planning to kill anybody, but to transport his colleagues after the job was done. (Kennedy, p.298-302) The In 1992, the Supreme Court ruled the prosecution has failed to prove that the brothers showed reckless indifference since they were away from the scene and it was their father and Randy Greenawalt who did the shooting. They were resentenced to life in prison.(Associated Press, p2)