We wrote about Viva Leroy Nash, the character shown below, a few weeks ago. Mainly, we took a hard look at his case because, at 93, he's the oldest man on death row in the United States.
We pointed out that, despite being sentenced way back in 1983 to die, Mr. Nash never will be executed for the brutal robbery-murder he committed inside a west Phoenix coin shop.
Nash has been on the Row at the Arizona Department of Corrections in Florence for more than a quarter-centur
The folks at the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington D.C. sent us their informative year-end report in the aftermath of our recent piece on 93-year-old Viva Leroy Nash, the senior member of death row here in Arizona and nationwide. It shows that U.S. executions are down more than 60 pecent compared to nine years ago.
(At left is a photo of murderer Robert Comer, who died by lethal injection in Florence on May 22, 2007, the only legal execution in A
