Florence --
More than half of his life was spent behind bars, at the end waiting for Viva Leroy Nash, the lethal injection. But then came the nature of the judiciary before: The oldest death row inmate died in the U.S. on Friday night at the age of 94 years in prison in Florence (Arizona), a natural death.
The local radio station KOLD reported on Sunday. There he sat a cold-blooded since 1983 for the murder of an employee of a Münzhandlung in Phoenix the year before. Nash's criminal career reached U.S. media reported back to the 30s. He spent 25 years behind bars, because he shot a police officer in Connecticut, 1947.
Because Nash 1977 a man in Salt Lake City (Utah) killed with a bullet, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 1982, he escaped during a work operation outside the prison. A month later he shot and killed at the age of 67 years in Phoenix, the coin dealer.
In September, the newspaper "Arizona Republic had moved," according to Nash - born in 1915 - the chance to reach to take off from the death cell. His lawyer had argued before the court, Nash is no longer responsible for his actions because of mental deterioration. The entry has since amounted to a district court in Phoenix.
In Arizona, the Information Center for information have been executed since the reinstatement of death penalty executions in the United States 34 years ago 23 people. Since 1999, the number of executions in the United States has fallen dramatically: from 284 to 106 in the past year, according to Information. In Arizona, there had been, therefore, 2009 not only execution.
