Ruling puts Tucson child-killer back on Arizona’s death row

The U.S. Supreme Court has put two Arizona murderers back on death row, including one who killed a 4-year-old Tucson girl. In a split opinion Monday, the court overturned decisions by federal courts to allow each of them to present new evidence in post-conviction proceedings that their attorneys did not do an effective job of defending them in state court. Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the 6-3 majority, said federal judges are powerless to consider such cases if the evidence was not presented to a state appellate court.’Federal habeas review is not a substitute for ordinary error correction through appeal,’ he wrote. The other is David M. Ramirez, who was out on parole, stabbed the mom 15 times in the neck, back, stomach and left eye and . . .