as equivalent to purposeful and knowing killing." Moreover, a number of state courts have interpreted Enmund to permit the imposition of the death penalty in such aggravated felony murders. Enmund explicitly dealt with two distinct subsets of all felony murders in assessing whether Enmund's sentence was disproportional under the Eighth Amendment. 543 (1923). What makes this a difficult case is the challenge of giving substantive content to the concept of criminal culpability. The urge to employ the felony-murder doctrine against accomplices is undoubtedly strong when the killings stir public passion and the actual murderer is beyond human grasp. On July 30, 1978, the three Tison brothers entered the Arizona State Prison at Florence carrying a large ice chest filled with guns. Gary. They did not plan the breakout or escape; rather their father, after thinking about it himself for a year, mentioned the idea to Raymond for the first time one week before the breakout, and discussed with his sons the possibility of having them participate only the day before the breakout. Gary Tison escaped into the desert where he subsequently died of exposure. ." This Court granted certiorari on the following question: "Is the December 4, 1984 decision of the Arizona Supreme Court to execute petitioners in conflict with the holding of Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 [102 S.Ct. Ganter and a codefendant committed an armed robbery of a store, during which Ganter killed one of the store's owners. Cab- ana v. Bullock, supra, 474 U.S., at 386, 106 S.Ct., at 697. for Cert. Each of the petitioners was convicted of the four murders under these accomplice liability and felony-murder statutes.1. 905, 911 (1939). Two brothers, Rick and Raymond Tison, coordinated a plan to help their father escape from prison. in accomplishing the underlying felony." In any given case, the Court said, the death penalty must "measurably contribut[e]" to one or both of the two "social purposes"deterrence and retributionwhich this Court has accepted as justifications for the death penalty. I wish we could [have done] something to stop it, but by the time it happened it was too late to stop it. A narrow focus on the question of whether or not a given defendant "intended to kill," however, is a highly unsatisfactory means of definitively distinguishing the most culpable and dangerous of murderers. 76-5-202(1) (Supp.1986); Va.Code 18.2-31 (Supp.1986). She was found huddled over the family dog that was also killed. Ibid. . The Arizona courts interpreted the plea agreement to require that petitioners testify to the planning stages of the breakout. In this case, the State appears to have afforded petitioners all of the procedures that this Court has deemed sufficient to produce constitutional sentencing decisions. This definition of intent is broader than that described by the Enmund Court. post, at ----. Marine Sgt. Since attempts were punished as misdemeanors, . 458 U.S., at 794, 102 S.Ct., at 3375. 142 Ariz. 446, 448, 690 P.2d 747, 749 (1984); 142 Ariz., at 456, 690 P.2d, at 757. Enmund, 458 U.S., at 798, 102 S.Ct., at 3377 ("It is fundamental that 'causing harm intentionally must be punished more severely than causing the same harm unintentionally' " (citation omitted)); United States v. United States Gypsum Co., 438 U.S. 422, 444, 98 S.Ct. The question this case presents is what punishment Arizona may constitutionally exact from two of Gary Tison's sons for their role in these events. As the group traveled on back roads and secondary highways through the desert, another tire blew out. Cf. Vermont limited the death penalty to defendants who commit a second unrelated murder or murder a correctional officer. And it's just something we are going to live with the rest of our lives. The couple's niece survived long enough to crawl a quarter mile before succumbing to her injuries. After he had been in prison a number of years, Gary Tison's wife, their three sons Donald, Ricky, and Raymond, Gary's brother Joseph, and other relatives made plans to help Gary Tison escape again. See Brief for Petitioners 3 (citing Tr. 551, 83 L.Ed.2d 438 (1984). that the threat that the death penalty will be imposed for murder will measurably deter one who does not kill and has no intention or purpose that life will be taken. On the other hand, even after Enmund, only 11 States authorizing capital punishment forbid imposition of the death penalty even though the defendant's participation in the felony murder is major and the likelihood of killing is so substantial as to raise an inference of extreme recklessness.10 This substantial and recent legislative authorization of the death penalty for the crime of felony murder regardless of the absence of a finding of an intent to kill powerfully suggests that our society does not reject the death penalty as grossly excessive under these circumstances, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S., at 179-181, 96 S.Ct., at 2928-2929 (opinion of Stewart, POWELL, and STEVENS, JJ. . . A massive manhunt in Arizona ended on Aug. 11, 1978, when the gang ran a police road block near Casa Grande. The Tison gang killed them near Pagosa Springs, took their van and returned to Arizona. Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 U.S. 280, 304, 96 S.Ct. The lower court merely stated that petitioners did not "disassociate" themselves from their father and Greenawalt after the shooting. With regard to deterrence, the Court was "quite unconvinced . 233-234. 1182, 89 L.Ed.2d 299 (1986).2. App. November 03, 2018 11:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time. PARA. He assisted in the abduction by flagging down the victims as they drove by, while the other members of the gang remained hidden and armed. They were re-sentenced to life in prison, where they remain today. Tison was under a mesquite tree, about a mile and half from the where the van crashed. 8, ch. See Fletcher, Rethinking Criminal Law, at 415 ("Judges in traffic courts are readily tempted by the philosophy that regardless of whether the particular suspect has committed the violation, a punitive fine will make him drive more carefully in the future"). In reversing the Florida Supreme Court, this Court took note of the "overwhelming evidence" of "[s]ociety's rejection of the death penalty for accomplice liability in felony murders." Lists of those executed and those on death row are published in NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Death Row U.S.A. (Mar. Their decision to provide arms for and participate in a prison breakout and escape may support the lower court's finding that they should have anticipated that lethal force might be used during the breakout and subsequent flight, but it does not support the Court's conclusions about petitioners' mental states concerning the shootings that actually occurred. Ante, at 158 (emphasis added). Ricky and Raymond Tison were tried, convicted and sentenced to death. 507.020(1)(b) (1985); Ill.Rev.Stat., ch. We show this fidelity, for example, when we decline to hold a young child as morally and criminally responsible for an illegal act as we would hold an adult who committed the same act. Petitioners then collaterally attacked their death sentences in state postconviction proceedings alleging that Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782, 102 S.Ct. Captured fugitives Rick Tison (second from left), Raymond Tison and Randy Greenawalt are led to court after their arrest on Aug. 11, 1978. 79, 672 P.2d 862 (1983). The facts on which the Court relies are not sufficient, in my view, to support the Court's conclusion that petitioners acted with reckless disregard for human life.4 But even if they were, the Court's decision to restrict its vision to the limited set of facts that "the Arizona Supreme Court has given . The doctrine thus imposes liability on felons for killings committed by cofelons during a felony. 1939) ("Thy fathers' sins, O Roman, thou, though guiltless, shall expiate"); W. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene 5, line 1 ("Yes, truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children"); H. Ibsen, Ghosts (1881). NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Death Row U.S.A. 1 (Aug. 1986). . (function(d){var js, id="pikto-embed-js", ref=d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) { return;}js=d.createElement("script"); js.id=id; js.async=true;js.src="https://magic.piktochart.com/assets/embedding/embed.js";ref.parentNode.insertBefore(js, ref);}(document)); Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way, n July 30 they changed their attitude when. Rather, we simply hold that major participation in the felony committed, combined with reckless indifference to human life, is sufficient to satisfy the Enmund culpability requirement.12 The Arizona courts have clearly found that the former exists; we now vacate the judgments below and remand for determination of the latter in further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. 20-21, 39-41, 74-75, 109. 288 (1952). 339, 88 L.Ed.2d 324 (1985); State v. Hooper, 145 Ariz. 538, 703 P.2d 482 (1985) (defendant killed for hire), cert. Factors such as the defendant's major participation in the events surrounding the killing or the defendant's presence at the scene are relevant insofar as they illuminate the defendant's mental state with regard to the killings. Nevertheless, the Court saw no reason to depart from its conclusion that the death penalty could not be justified as a deterrent in that case, because "competent observers have concluded that there is no basis in experience for the notion that death so frequently occurs in the course of a felony for which killing is not an essential ingredient that the death penalty should be considered as a justifiable deterrent to the felony itself." A scant four years later, however, the Court validated Georgia's new machinery, and in 1977 executions resumed. This case thus illustrates the enduring truth of Justice Harlan's observation that the tasks of identifying "those characteristics of criminal homicides and their perpetrators which call for the death penalty, and [of] express[ing] these characteristics in language which can be fairly understood and applied by the sentencing authority appear to be . 689, 699, 88 L.Ed.2d 704 (1986) ("Considerations of federalism and comity counsel respect for the ability of state courts to carry out their role as the primary protectors of the rights of criminal defendants"). 146-1158. Given these circumstances, the sons' own testimony that they were surprised by the killings, and did not expect them to occur, appears more plausible than the Court's speculation that they "subjectively appreciated that their activities were likely to result in the taking of innocent life." 283. Arizona has recodified and broadened its felony-murder statute to include killings occurring during the course of a variety of sex and narcotics offenses and escape. Supreme Court of Arizona, In Banc. As Ricky and Raymond Tison were at the Mazda they heard the gunshots. Clergy" would be spared. Fitzjames Stephen put the case of a man who 'sees a boy sitting on a bridge over a deep river and, out of mere wanton barbarity, pushes him into it and so drowns him.' Ibid. 689, 88 L.Ed.2d 704 (1986). Table of Contents Introduction I. In light of this evidence, it is not surprising that the Arizona Supreme Court rested its judgment on the narrow ground that petitioners could have anticipated that lethal force might be used during the escape, or that the state probation officerwho reviewed at length all the facts concerning the sons' mental statesdid not recommend that the death sentence be imposed. Wanton killings are generally regarded as among the most wicked, and the feature that makes a killing wanton is precisely the absence of detached reflection before the deed. While in Enmund the Court focused on a breakdown of these statistics into those physically present at the scene and those not, that information is not relevant here. The issue raised by this case is whether the Eighth Amendment prohibits the death penalty in the intermediate case of the defendant whose participation is major and whose mental state is one of reckless indifference to the value of human life. Like Enmund, the Tisons neither killed nor attempted or intended to kill anyone. Amnesty International, United States of America, The Death Penalty 228-231 (1987). Greenawalt and Ricky and Raymond Tison were taken into custody. Id., at 447-448, 690 P.2d, at 748-749. 2909, 2931, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976), requires the State to inquire into the relevant facets of "the character and record of the individual offender." As they ran the second roadblock, police fired killing Donny Tison and forcingthe van off the road. The Tison brothers' cases fall into neither of these neat categories. Because our precedents and our Constitution compel a different answer than the one the Court reaches today, I dissent. 39-2-202(a), 39-2-203(i)(7) (1982); Wyo.Stat. denied, 474 U.S. 1073, 106 S.Ct. App. . Ante, at 151; see also ibid. 27, 410, 412(b), 413(d)(10), 413(e)(1), 413(d)(5) (1957 and Supp.1986) (death penalty may be imposed only on person who committed the killing, but possible exception if victim is a child); N.H.Rev.Stat.Ann. The Framers provided in the Eighth Amendment the limiting principles otherwise absent in the prevailing theories of punishment. Ricky Wayne TISON, Appellant. Arizonas most notorious death row inmates past and present have incredible stories, including this one that launched the state's largest manhunt. Importantly, the judge specifically found that the crime was not mitigated by the fact that each of the petitioner's "participation was relatively minor." 142 Ariz., at 462, 690 P.2d, at 763; see also App. 442, 446, 402 P.2d 130, 134 (1965) (opinion of Traynor, C.J.). Thus, the Court in Enmund examined the relevant statistics on the imposition of the death penalty for accomplices in a felony murder. Thomas Brawley, a retired lieutenant of the Coconino County Sheriff's Office, died Wednesday after battling lung cancer. Moore v. Dempsey, 261 U.S. 86, 87, 43 S.Ct. "In the present case the evidence does not show that petitioner killed or attempted to kill. This was impermissible under the Eighth Amendment." In sentencing petitioners, the trial court did not find that they had killed, attempted to kill, or intended to kill anyone. denied, 469 U.S. 1066, 105 S.Ct. Ann., Tit. Id., at 41, 111. In any event, petitioners agree they saw Greenawalt and their father brutally murder their four captives with repeated blasts from their shotguns. Of the 45 murderers then on death row, 36 had been found to have "intended" to take life, and 8 of the 9 for which there was no finding of intent had been the triggerman. Such grounds can be used to justify the punishment even of innocent people when the guilty have not been found and the mob threatens new violence. . Also petitioner was present at the murder site, did nothing to interfere with the murders, and after the murders even continued on the joint venture. Tison was doing life for killing a Phoenix jail guard in 1967. Only a small minority of States even authorized the death penalty in such circumstances and even within those jurisdictions the death penalty was almost never exacted for such a crime. Ante, at 155. The Tisons armed Greenawalt and their father, and the group, brandishing their weapons, locked the prison guards and visitors present in a storage closet. Appeal is automatic in Arizona capital cases. Enmund was, therefore, sentenced under a distinct minority regime, a regime that permitted the imposition of the death penalty for felony murder simpliciter. John Lyons and his family stopped to help, and were taken by gunpoint into the desert. Greenawalt drew an X on the door near the head of the sleeping trucker, then fired a shot through the door. The Arizona Supreme Court has made formal findings of "intent to kill" to comply with the perceived "dictate of Enmund." The Court acknowledged that "[i]t would be very different if the likelihood of a killing in the course of a robbery were so substantial that one should share the blame for the killing if he somehow participated in the felony." Once committed, it was too late and there does not appear to be any true defense based on brainwashing, mental deficiency, mental illness or irresistible urge. In four of the five cases cited as evidence of an "apparent consensus" that intent to kill is not a prerequisite for imposing the death penalty, the court did not specifically find an absence of any act or intent to kill. Moreover, even in cases where the fact that the defendant was a major participant in a felony did not suffice to establish reckless indifference, that fact would still often provide significant support for such a finding. At a minimum, however, it can be said that all these jurisdictions, as well as six States which Enmund classified along with Florida as permitting capital punishment for felony murder simpliciter,8 and the three States which simply require some additional aggravation before imposing the death penalty upon a felony murderer,9 specifically authorize the death penalty in a felony-murder case where, though the defendant's mental state fell short of intent to kill, the defendant was a major actor in a felony in which he knew death was highly likely to occur. All records are subject to change and, while every effort is made to ensure the information available is current and accurate, it may contain errors. Raymond Tison was told that he was to wait by the vehicle and flag someone down to help him with the flat tire. 1749, 90 L.Ed.2d 123 (1986); State v. Villafuerte, 142 Ariz. 323, 690 P.2d 42 (1984) (defendant killed victim), cert. . Gary Tison was sentenced to life imprisonment as the result of a prison escape during the course of which he had killed a guard. The Petitioners, Ricky and Raymond Tison (Petitioners), were sentenced by a judge to death after conviction for four murders under accomplice liability and felony-murder statutes. The Lyons family was forced into the backseat of the Lincoln. . Cf. He did not elude the August desert he died of exposure. 1234, 84 L.Ed.2d 371 (1985); State v. Fisher, 141 Ariz. 227, 686 P.2d 750 (defendant killed victim), cert. 142 Ariz. 446, 690 P.2d 747, and 142 Ariz. 454, 690 P.2d 755, vacated and remanded. One such principle is that the States may not impose punishment that is disproportionate to the severity of the offense or to the individual's own conduct and culpability. Facebook gives people the power to. McGautha v. California, 402 U.S. 183, 204, 91 S.Ct. The Court then remands the case for a determination by the state court whether petitioners are culpable under this new standard. . 2861, 53 L.Ed.2d 982 (1977). imposes a categorical rule: a person who has not in fact killed, attempted to kill, or intended that a killing take place or that lethal force be used may not be sentenced to death." If they'd executed him for his crime the first time, those people might still be alive today.". State v. Tison, 129 Ariz. 546, 556, 633 P.2d 355, 365 (1981). Ariz.Rev.Stat.Ann. Eight people, including Gary Tison and his oldest son, died in the statewide crime spree. 450 (1892)); cf. In those more easygoing times, Arizona's medium security facilities apparently offered little trouble to Gary Tison's three sons -- Donald, 20, Ricky, 19, and Raymond, 18 -- when they decided to sneak in an ice chest containing revolvers and sawed-off shotguns on visitors' day. John and Alice Break Into a Liquor Warehouse at Night and are Accused of First-Degree Murder III. . 1473(c)(6)(D). 13-454(F)(3) (Supp.1973) (repealed 1978). When the Arizona Supreme Court first reviewed this case on appeal, it stated that petitioners' degree of mens rea was of little significance to the case. The Arizona Supreme Court, however, upheld the "pecuniary gain" and "heinousness" aggravating circumstances and the death sentences. He was located in the low-security Trusty Unit. Unlike Enmund, however, the Tisons will be the first individuals in over 30 years to be executed for such behavior. At the other end of the spectrum, eight States required a finding of intent to kill before death could be imposed in a felony-murder case and one State required actual participation in the killing. The Tison brothers _ Donald, 20, Ricky, 19, and Raymond, 18 _ had helped their father Gary Tison and Greenawalt break out of the state prison in Florence. After he had been in prison a number of years, Gary Tison's wife, their three sons Donald, Ricky, and Raymond, Gary's brother Joseph, and other relatives made plans to help Gary Tison escape again. The two remaining Tison sons remain in the Arizona State prison at Florence. App. The Tison gang terrorized Arizona in the summer of 1978. . Information available through ArrestFacts.com is provided for informational purposes only. Ark.Stat.Ann. The court then reviewed, in a passage this Court quotes at length, ante, at 144-145, petitioners' conduct during the escape and subsequent flight. As petitioners point out, there is no evidence that either Ricky or Raymond Tison took any act which he desired to, or was substantially certain would, cause death. 12/02/2020 . They both were sentenced to life in 1992. The two cars were parked trunk to trunk and the Lyons family was ordered to stand in front of the Lincoln's headlights. Looking for Ricky Raymond online? Skillern v. Procunier, 469 U.S. 1067, 105 S.Ct. Tison v. Arizona Facts Gary Tison was an inmate serving a sentence of life imprisonment for killing a guard during an attempted. "Give us some water just leave us here and you all go home". But the constitutionality of the death penalty for those individuals is no more relevant to this case than it was to Enmund, because this case, like Enmund, involves accomplices who did not kill. But Gary Tison got away. Deeply ingrained in our legal tradition is the idea that the more purposeful is the criminal conduct, the more serious is the offense, and, therefore, the more severely it ought to be punished. . The person who chooses to act recklessly and is indifferent to the possibility of fatal consequences often deserves serious punishment. Louisiana State University Golf Club. 12, 10 (1547). Thirteen States and the District of Columbia have abolished the death penalty. [142 Ariz. 447] . INTERACTIVE RADAR: Tracking winter storm in Arizona. Indeed, the possibility of bloodshed is inherent in the commission of any violent felony and this possibility is generally foreseeable and foreseen; it is one principal reason that felons arm themselves. denied sub nom. I hope the hell they carry it out this time. Smuggling in a cooler full of guns, the Tisons helped Gary and his cellmate Randy escape. Instead, the court found that each petitioner "could [have] anticipate[d] the use of lethal force during this attempt to flee confinement." If it does not so contribute, it " 'is nothing more than the purposeless and needless imposition of pain and suffering' and hence an unconstitutional punishment." Ibid. But the California Supreme Court only did so in light of perceived federal constitutional limitations stemming from our then recent decision in Edmund. denied, 469 U.S. 1098, 105 S.Ct. Tison was under a mesquite tree, about a mile and half from the where the van crashed. Eight people, including Gary Tison and his oldest son, died in the statewide crime spree. See Md. And when this [killing of the kidnap victims] came about we were not expecting it. Donald Tison was killed. The proceedings below illustrate how, under the felony-murder doctrine, a defendant may be held liable and sentenced to death for a murder that he or she neither committed nor intended to commit. Ariz.Rev.Stat.Ann. The stories diverge a bit, but ultimately the Tison boys watch their father and the other convict 1328, 79 L.Ed.2d 723 (1984); Deputy v. State, 500 A.2d 581, 599-600 (Del.1985) (defendant present at scene; robbed victims; conflicting evidence as to participation in killing), cert. . Participants in violent felonies like armed robberies can frequently "anticipat[e] that lethal force . 14, 1979, hearing). See this Court's Rule 21.1(a). 2726, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972), this Court concluded that the State's procedural machinery was so imperfect that imposition of the death penalty had become arbitrary and therefore unconstitutional. 458 U.S., at 796, 102 S.Ct., at 3376.16 Of the 64 persons on death row in Arizona, all of those who have raised and lost an Enmund challenge in the Arizona Supreme Court have been found either to have killed or to have specifically intended to kill.17 Thus, like Enmund, the Tisons' sentence appears to be an aberration within Arizona itself as well as nationally and internationally. 15A-2000(f)(4) (1983). It is important first to note that such a defendant has not committed an act for which he or she could be sentenced to death. The group decided to flag down a passing motorist and steal a car. Killing without a motive can usually be just as wicked as killing after detached reflection about one's goals." Gary Gene Tison | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers He was located in the low-security Trusty Unit. Id., at 282-283. Expert Help. Study Resources. On July 30, 1978, his sons Ricky, Raymond Ray, and Donald Donny smuggled shotguns into the prison and helped Gary. This curious doctrine is a living fossil from a legal era in which all felonies were punishable by death; in those circumstances, the state of mind of the felon with respect to the murder was understandably superfluous, because he or she could be executed simply for intentionally committing the felony.2 Today, in most American jurisdictions and in virtually all European and Commonwealth countries, a felon cannot be executed for a murder that he or she did not commit or specifically intend or attempt to commit. Gary was serving life in prison for murdering a guard during a previous escape attempt. 19.02(a), 19.03(a)(2) (1974 and Supp. The state statutes discussed in Enmund v. Florida are largely unchanged. On July 30, 1978, petitioner and his two brothers, Raymond and Donald Tison, assisted in the escape of their father, Gary Tison, and Randy Greenawalt from the Arizona State Prison in Florence. The importance of distinguishing between these different choices is rooted in our belief in the "freedom of the human will and a consequent ability and duty of the normal individual to choose between good and evil." . Ala.Code 13A-2-23, 13A-5-40(a)(2), (b), 13A-5-51, 13A-6-2(a)(2) (1982 and Supp.1986); La.Rev.Stat.Ann. Against this backdrop, we now consider the proportionality of the death penalty in these midrange felony-murder cases for which the majority of American jurisdictions clearly authorize capital punishment and for which American courts have not been nearly so reluctant to impose death as they are in the case of felony murder simpliciter.11. 13-454(A) (Supp.1973) (repealed 1978). At the site, petitioner, Ricky Tison and Greenawalt placed the gang's possessions in the victims' Mazda and the victims' possessions in the gang's disabled Lincoln Continental. . We granted certiorari in order to consider the Arizona Supreme Court's application of Enmund. 408 U.S., at 313, 92 S.Ct., at 2764 (WHITE, J., concurring). Like the Enmund Court, we find the state legislatures' judgment as to proportionality in these circumstances relevant to this constitutional inquiry.4 The largest number of States still fall into the two intermediate categories discussed in Enmund. According to the Court, ante, at 154156, n. 10, 11 States would not authorize the death penalty in the circumstances presented here. The saga told in "The Last Rampage: The Escape of Gary Tison" begins in 1978, when Tison, of Casa Grande, was serving a life sentence for killing a prison guard. After the killings, petitioner did nothing to disassociate himself from Gary Tison and Greenawalt, but instead used the victims' car to continue on the joint venture, a venture that lasted several more days. Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 345, 92 S.Ct. Many who intend to, and do, kill are not criminally liable at allthose who act in self-defense or with other justification or excuse. Gary Tison and Greenawalt actually carried out the murders. He sought help for a breakout, and his three sons arrived to help him and fellow prisoner Randy Greenawalt flee. Conn.Gen.Stat. PHOTOS: Arizona's youngest inmates currently on death row. 2726, 2780, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972) (concurring opinion). . Being sought were killers Randy Greenawalt, 28, and Gary G. Tison, 42, and Tison's three sons, Ricky, 18, Donald, 22, and Raymond, 19, authorities said. On rehearing, the Arizona Supreme Court did make a finding that petitioners could have anticipated that lethal force would be used during the breakout or subsequent flight. . Similarly, we hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activities known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state, a mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment when that conduct causes its natural, though also not inevitable, lethal result. So rarely does any State (let alone any Western country other than our own) ever execute a person who neither killed nor intended to kill that "these death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual." Rev. See, e.g., Horace, Odes III, 6:1 (C. Bennett trans. 3368, 73 L.Ed.2d 1140 (1982), the question "whether death is a valid penalty under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments for one who neither took life, attempted to take life, nor intended to take life." . We hold that the Arizona Supreme Court applied an erroneous standard in making the findings required by Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782, 102 S.Ct. Raymond later explained that his father "was like in conflict with himself. They searched for days with temperatures nearing 120 degrees. " Pet. In addition, the Court's statement that Raymond did not act to assist the victims "after" the shooting, and its statement that Ricky "watched the killing after which he chose to aid those whom he had placed in the position to kill rather than their victims," ante, at 152, takes license with the facts found by the Arizona Supreme Court. See, e.g., Horace, Odes III, 6:1 ( C. trans... 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