State v. Kerrie D. Price

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Kerrie Price committed a series of drug-offenses, and the State charged him with multiple counts eventually leading to sentences that total eighty-eight years. The State now alleges that Price committed two murders while he was out on bail awaiting trial for these crimes. Price argued to the trial court that a death penalty imposed for these offenses must be carried out after he serves the eighty-eight-year sentence ordered earlier.

The trial court agreed with Price that an execution, if ordered, could only occur many decades in the future. It apparently also agreed with…