Leroy Dean McGill’s life was marked by instability long before he was sentenced to death.
Born on Feb. 22, 1963, in Richmond, California, McGill was one of five surviving children born to parents whose marriage dissolved while his mother was pregnant with him. His father — an undercover vice cop — had an affair with a woman he had arrested, according to court documents.
After the divorce, his mother packed their belongings into a trailer and moved the family to Phoenix when McGill was 4 months old. By age 8, McGill and some of his siblings were put in foster care as his mother struggled to care for five children…