State of Arizona, Appellee v. Christopher Allen Hargrave, Appellant

Summary

The Arizona Supreme Court affirmed Hargrave’s convictions and three death sentences after rejecting his challenges to the admission of prior-act evidence, jury instructions, charging document, lesser-included-offense instructions, capital aggravators, penalty instructions, appellate record, and lethal-injection method. The court independently determined that the pecuniary-gain, especially-cruel, and multiple-homicide aggravators were proven and that the mitigating evidence did not warrant leniency. It nevertheless remanded the burglary conviction for resentencing because the fifteen-year sentence exceeded the applicable statutory range.