The Robbery That Rewrote How America Decides the Death Penalty

A former security professional. A sniper rifle. A single shot outside an Arizona mall that killed an armored van driver and set off a manhunt ending in a drainage culvert off a desert highway.

The capture of Timothy Ring closed the case. But what happened next, in an Arizona courtroom and ultimately before the United States Supreme Court, reshaped how every death penalty case in America is decided to this day.

This episode goes deeper into the Arrowhead Mall heist — the tactical precision of the crime, the manhunt that ended it, and the landmark Sixth Amendment ruling, Ring v. Arizona, that followed.

Part of The FBI Files, based on real case history.

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