State of Arizona, Appellee v. Ryan Wesley Kuhs, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed Ryan Wesley Kuhs's convictions for first degree burglary and felony murder, his death sentence, and his concurrent twenty-eight-year burglary sentence. It held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in determining competency without an evidentiary hearing, denying a mistrial, responding to penalty-phase deadlocks, or evaluating the death sentence, and that the evidence and jury instructions were sufficient. The court also rejected Kuhs's challenge to Arizona's lethal-injection statute. No separate opinions were filed.