Arizona Daily Star
COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. — One of two men convicted in the 1991 sex-killings of two 13-year-old girls is already free after serving 20 years in prison. The second man is about to be executed.
Richard Dale Stokley’s execution by injection is scheduled 21 years and 5 months after Mandy Meyers and Mary Snyder went missing and then were found dead. Both were raped, beaten, strangled, stabbed and stomped before being dumped in a partly flooded mine shift in a ghost town in rural Cochise County.
Stokley, then 38 and now 60, was sentenced to death on two first-degree murder convictions. He also was convicted of sexual assault against a minor.
The man now free is Randy E. Brazeal, who was 19 when the girls were killed. He was 39 when released July 2, 2011 after serving the full prison system imposed under a plea agreement for second-degree murder convictions.
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