State v. Mauro

HAYS, Justice.

Appellant, William Carl Mauro, was convicted of one count of first degree murder, A.R.S. § 13-1105, and one count of child abuse, A.R.S. § 13-3623. He was sentenced to death for the murder conviction and to a term of 28 years for the child abuse conviction. The sentences were to run consecutively. We have jurisdiction pursuant to A.R.S. §§ 13-4031 and -4035.

The facts from the record follow. On November 23, 1982, Mauro and his family were eating breakfast when appellant’s seven-year-old son David began crying and screaming. David was in the bathroom where he had been imprisoned…