Arizona high court approves executions for 2 inmates
The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday set execution dates for two Arizona death-row inmates in Florence.
Robert Moormann will be executed by lethal injection on Feb. 29, and Robert Towery will be put to death on March 8.
Towery, 47, strangled Paradise Valley philanthropist Mark Emerson Jones in 1991 during a robbery of Jones’ home.
Moormann, 63, killed his adoptive mother, Roberta Moormann, during a 1984 “compassionate furlough” from prison at the Blue Mist Motel near the prison in Florence.
Moormann cut her body into pieces and dumped them in garbage cans around Florence. He was already serving time for kidnapping
On Monday, Moormann’s attorneys asked the court to consider his diminishing “intellectual functioning” and recent medical trauma. In September, Moormann was taken from the state prison in Florence to a hospital in Tempe to have an emergency appendectomy and a quintuple bypass, according to court filings.
The 47-year-old King was convicted of fatally shooting two people in the 1989 robbery of a Phoenix convenience store. Arizona's last execution was on Oct. 26 when Jeffrey Landrigan died by injection at the state prison in Florence.