Division of Corrections, Department of Health & Social Services v. Neakok

OPINION

COMPTON, Justice.

On August 18, 1980, while highly intoxicated, Clifford Nukapigak shot and killed his teenaged stepdaughter and her boyfriend, and raped, beat and strangled to death another woman. Nukapigak v. State, 663 P.2d 943 (Alaska 1983). The murders took place in Point Lay, an isolated community of less than 100 residents and no resident law enforcement officers. Nukapigak had been mandatorily released from prison six months before the murders, having served a six-year sentence, less statutory good time, for an assault and rape committed in 1975. At the time of the murders he…