Nukapigak v. State

OPINION

BURKE, Chief Justice.

On August 17, 1980, Clifford Nukagpigak shot and killed his teen-aged stepdaughter and her boyfriend. He forced a second woman into his cabin where he raped her, beat her with a hammer, and strangled her. He was convicted on three counts of murder in the first degree, one count of kidnapping, and one count of sexual assault in the first degree.

Superior Court Judge James R. Blair sentenced Nukapigak to three consecutive ninety-nine year terms on the first degree murder convictions. Sentences of thirty years on the kidnapping conviction and twenty years on the sexual…