Entries tagged with “Dale Wayne Eaton”
Mar 22, 2022
Bungled Resentencing of Wyoming’s Only Active Death Penalty Case Revictimizes Victim’s Family
March 25, 2022 will mark the end of the only death penalty case in Wyoming — or at least the family of Lisa Marie Kimmell hopes it will. The family traveled from Colorado and Arizona to offer in-person victim-impact statements at the January 21, 2022 sentencing hearing where Dale Wayne Eaton (pictured), who had been Wyoming’s only death-row prisoner, was scheduled to be resentenced to life. But as they waited in a Casper courtroom for the proceeding to start, Eaton was nowhere to be found. The…
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Federal Death Penalty
,Jul 22, 2019
Death-Penalty News and Developments for the Week of July 22 – 28, 2019: Appeals Court Permits New Capital Prosecution in Only Wyoming Death-Penalty Case
NEWS: July 23 — The U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that Wyoming prosecutors may seek the death penalty in resentencing proceedings against 74-year-old Dale Wayne Eaton. Eaton had been the only person on Wyoming’s death row between 2004, when he was sentenced to death for a 1988 killing, and 2014, when a federal district court reversed his death sentence for ineffective penalty-phase representation. At that time, Eaton sought to bar a capital resentencing trial, arguing that the death of…