Arizona death row prisoner Danny Lee Jones denied by Supreme Court

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower court ruling ordering a new sentencing hearing for an Arizona death row prisoner who strangled a 7-year-old and beat her father to death with a bat in 1992. Lawyers for Danny Lee Jones, convicted in 1993 of the brutal murders in Bullhead City, argued that his death sentence was unfair because his lawyer failed to introduce evidence of his own childhood trauma and brain injuries – mitigating factors that might have led to a lesser sentence…

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Sahara Sajjadi | Cronkite News

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