The State of Arizona, Appellee v. Stephen Douglas Reeves, Appellant

Summary

The court affirmed Reeves's convictions and death sentence. It held that the penalty-phase mistrial caused by the jury's inability to reach a unanimous sentencing verdict was permissible, and that retrying the penalty phase did not violate double jeopardy, the Eighth Amendment, or the governing capital-sentencing statutes. The court also rejected Reeves's vagueness, mitigation, release-evidence, and alleged presumption-of-death challenges, concluding that the evidence supported the aggravating circumstances and death sentence.