Jones v. Commonwealth

A jury empanelled pursuant to the bifurcated procedure mandated by Code §§ 19.2-264.3 and -264.4 convicted Willie Leroy Jones of two counts of capital murder. Each count charged a “willful, deliberate and premeditated killing ... in the commission of robbery while armed with a deadly weapon,” Code § 18.2-31(d), and a “willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing of more than one person as a part of the same act or transaction,” Code § 18.2-31(g). On each count, the jury found that the defendant’s “conduct in committing the offense . . . was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman…