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Supreme Court justices challenged Arizona's claim Tuesday that a death row inmate should not get a chance to appeal his sentence, based on what one justice called a "Kafkaesque" ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court.
The United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of John Montenegro Cruz, sentenced to death for the murder of a Tucson police officer.
The death penalty should not be a game, and unless we stop making it one, I'm through with it.
Supreme Court justices challenged Arizona’s claim Tuesday that a death row inmate should not get a chance to appeal his sentence, based on what one justice called a “Kafkaesque” ruling by the Arizona Supreme Court.
A lawyer for the inmate said that jurors in the case were wrongly told that the only way to ensure he would never walk free was to sentence him to death.