Patrick Bearup, a devout Christian man who is on death row in Arizona for a murder he did not commit, has now been behind bars for over 22 years. He was never offered a plea deal. Meanwhile, the man who actually committed the murder was offered a plea deal, sentenced to 14 years in prison and was released from prison in 2019. Another defendant, who shot the victim twice, was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and is scheduled for release in two years. 

Bearup, who was raised in a strong Christian family with a father who ran for Maricopa County Sheriff twice, was unfortunately at the wrong place at the wrong time. He was hanging out with a bad crowd, and the actual killer murdered the victim using a baseball bat. Since Bearup helped cut the ring off the dead man with wire cutters afterwards, he was implicated too. 

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Warren Granville, a former prosecutor, was so horrified by the outcome for Bearup that he berated the prosecution for 30 minutes during the trial, stating that they went after the least culpable actor with the most heinous penalty while telling the killer he'll be out in 10 years. He found that Bearup did not kill the victim, and said Bearup played “a lesser role … both in the kidnapping and in the murder aspect of the offense.” He said that “Mr. Bearup’s death penalty sentence … was not justified in the context of their relative responsibility of the co-defendants.” He concluded that “justice was not done for Mr. Bearup.”

However, RINO Maricopa........

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