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Scott Drake
CLABOURNE
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics:
Rape
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder:
September 18,
1980
Date of birth:
September 6,
1960
Victim profile: Laura Webster
(a University of Arizona student)
Method of murder: Stabbing
with knife
Location: Pima County, Arizona, USA
Status: Sentenced to death on January 24, 1983
Date of Birth:
September 6, 1960
Defendant: Black
Victim: Caucasian
On the evening of September 18,
1980, Laura Webster, a University of Arizona student, was at the Green
Dolphin Bar in Tucson with friends.
She met Clabourne and Larry Langston
at the bar and agreed to leave with them. Clabourne and Langston then
took Webster to the house of a friend of Langston.
Ms. Webster was
repeatedly raped and sodomized, then strangled and stabbed in the heart
three times. Her body was dumped in an arroyo, where it was found the
next morning.
Langston pled guilty to murder and received a life
sentence.
PROCEEDINGS
Presiding Judge: Richard N. Roylston (trial & original sentencing)
Roberto C. Montiel (resentencing)
Prosecutors: Geoffrey Cheadle, Jr. and Lynn Gallagher (trial &
original sentencing)
Kenneth Peasley and Joseph Maziarz (resentencing)
Start of Trial: November 16, 1982
Verdict: November 23, 1982
Sentencing: January 24, 1983
Resentencing: August 14, 1997
Aggravating Circumstances:
Especially heinous/cruel/depraved
Mitigating Circumstances:
Age
Passive personality, impulsive, and easily manipulated
Economic cost to the State as compared to a life sentence
PUBLISHED OPINIONS
State v. Clabourne, 142 Ariz. 335, 690 P.2d 54 (1984).
Clabourne v. Lewis, 64 F.3d 1373 (9th Cit. 1995).
October 31, 2003 - A Stay of Execution has been
issued in the December 10, 2003 scheduled execution of for ADC inmate
Scott CLABOURNE #046561
October 29, 2003 - Warrant of
Execution has been
issued for ADC inmate Scott CLABOURNE #046561 for December 10, 2003.
Inmate CLABOURNE has not exhausted his appeals process.
