When convicted killer Scott Nordstrom was given a chance to speak at his sentencing hearing Monday, he declined, saying, “No, I’m good.”
Three of his victim’s relatives seized the opportunity to speak about the loss of their loved ones and time did not diminish their tears.
Carol Brown lost her brother, Clarence Odell III, 47, when he was shot to death at the Moon Smoke Shop in the summer of 1996.
Anna Bell and her brother, Rick Bell, lost their parents, Arthur, 54, and mother, Judy Bell, 46, two weeks later when they were shot and killed at the Tucson Firefighters Association Union Hall.
Authorities believe the Bells, Odell, Carol Lynn Noel, 50, Thomas Hardman, 26, and Maribeth Munn, 53, were slain by Nordstrom and his friend, Robert G. Jones Jr. during separate robberies.
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Authorities believe Nordstrom shot Hardman and Noel and that Jones killed the four other victims, although both men were convicted of six counts of first-degree murder.
Both men were sentenced to death, but the U.S. Supreme Court decided in June 2002 that juries, not judges, should render the sentence in capital cases. Jones' death sentence had already been upheld, but Nordstrom was granted a new sentencing hearing.
Last month, another Pima County jury decided Nordstrom should die.
On Monday, Pima County Superior Court Judge Richard Nichols formally sentenced Nordstrom to die by lethal injection and imposed four no-parole life sentences for the other slayings, all to run consecutive to one another.
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