17 October 2010 :
A Maricopa County jury returned a death sentence again for Fabio Gomez, 34, black, from Santo Domingo, in the 1999 rape and slaying of 36-year-old Joanne Morane. A judge also sentenced Gomez to 10½ years in prison for kidnapping, to run consecutive to the death sentence. Gomez was convicted of 1st-degree murder in 2003. However, the Arizona Supreme Court threw out the death sentence because jurors saw Gomez in shackles and a jail uniform before the case's penalty phase.(source: Associated Press, 15/10/2010)
