INMATE 031293 MOORMAN ROBERT, H

Date of Birth June 4, 1948
Executed February 29, 2012
Defendant: Caucasian

Last Meal Request

• 1 - double hamburger (2 – ¼ pound patties) with 2 slices onion, 3 leaves lettuce, 3 slices tomato - prepared "medium"
• 1 – bun
• 6 ounces French fries with 4 ounces of ketchup
• 2 – 3 ounce ground beef burritos
• 2 – 14 ounce containers rocky road ice cream
• 3 – RC colas

While serving a sentence of 9 years to life at the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Moorman was given a 72-hour compassionate furlough to visit with his mother. The two stayed at the Blue Mist Motel in Florence. On January 13, 1984, Moorman bound and gagged his mother and then strangled and stabbed her. Moorman chopped the body into many parts and disposed of them in dumpsters throughout Florence.

PROCEEDINGS
Presiding Judge: Richard N. Roylston
Prosecutor: W. Allen Stooks
Start of Trial:  March 26, 1985
Verdict: April 4, 1985
Sentencing: May 7, 1985

Aggravating Circumstances
Prior conviction punishable by life imprisonment
Pecuniary gain
Especially heinous/cruel/depraved

Mitigating Circumstances
None sufficient to call for leniency

PUBLISHED OPINIONS
State v. Moorman, 154 Ariz. 578, 744 P.2d 679 (1987).