Phoenix – An Arizona prisoner plans to be executed for killing four family members next month Home in Phoenix Thirty years ago, a statement had been issued to apologize for the pain he caused.
In handwritten notes released on Thursday Richard Djerf Reiterate that he will not seek relief from the state’s large commission. “If I can’t find a reason to save my life, what will others have?” he wrote. “I hope my death brings some peace.”
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office sought a warrant for the DJERF execution and declined to comment on the statement.
DJERF, 55, killed four counts of murder on September 14, 1993 by Albert Luna Sr., his wife Patricia, and their 18-year-old daughter Rochelle and five-year-old son Damien.
The execution time for the DJERF to be executed by fatal injection is scheduled to be conducted on October 17. This will be the second time Arizona has used the death penalty this year.
The prosecutor said DJERF Albert Luna Jr., another Luna family member, stole household electronics in his apartment, was obsessed with revenge and months later he claimed he had claimed to deliver flowers.
Authorities say DJERF sexually assaulted Rochelle and chopped her in the throat. Beat Albert Luna Sr. with an aluminum baseball bat before stabbing and shooting him. Then tie Patricia Luna and Damien to the kitchen chair and shoot deadly.
DJERF said in a statement released Thursday that Albert Jr. was an innocent victim and what he found when he went home DJERF Do it to his family. “What I did to his family, or why it was his fault,” DJERF wrote.
The Associated Press was unable to find Luna’s contact information via the phone list, check case records and ask legal representatives involved in the court case.
Arizona currently has 108 prisoners on death row, and finally committed the death penalty in mid-March when he executed Aaron Brian in the 2002 killing of TED Price.
The state also conducted three executions in 2022, following criticism of the 2014 execution and the disruption caused by nearly eight years, due to difficulties in obtaining drug enforcement. In the 2014 execution, Joseph Wood was injected with a 15-dose combination of two doses in two hours, causing him to repeatedly snot and gasp hundreds before he passed away.
