State v. Conaway

PARKER, Justice.

Defendant was tried capitally on indictments charging him with the first-degree murders of Paul DeWitt Callahan and Thomas Amos Weatherford. The jury returned verdicts finding defendant guilty of both counts of first-degree murder on the theory of premeditation and deliberation. Following a sentencing proceeding pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 15A-2000, the jury recommended that defendant be sentenced to death for each murder. Execution was stayed on 16 November 1992 pending defendant’s appeal. The jury also found defendant guilty of the first-degree kidnapping of Paul DeWitt Callahan,…