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"Oldest US death row inmate dead at 94 in Arizona"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this new AP article.  Here are a few of the particulars: Deaf, nearly blind, confined to a wheelchair and suffering from dementia and mental illness, the oldest death row inmate in the United States has died of natural causes at age 94. Viva Leroy Nash died late Friday at the state's prison complex in Florence, said an Arizona Department of Corrections spokesman.... Nash had been imprisoned almost continuously since he was 15, said one of his appellate attorneys, Thomas Phalen....  "He was born in 1915 and he was sent to prison in 1930," Phalen said. "Think about it ? he had 15 years of life in southern Utah, at a time when Utah and Arizona was the wild, wild West ? and he went to prison in 1930, and he remained in prison for the next 80 years, more or less...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 14, 2010 (boomark / email).