Davis v. State

I concur to update the history of our review of capital cases contained in Robertson v. State, 298 Ark. 131, 765 S.W.2d 936 (1989) (Hickman and Glaze, JJ., concurring), Fretwell v. State, 289 Ark. 91, 708 S.W.2d 630 (1986) (Hickman, J., concurring), and Ruiz and Denton v. State, 280 Ark. 190, 655 S.W.2d 441 (1983) (Hickman, J., concurring).

Since Robertson, we have upheld the imposition of the death sentence in the following cases: Ruiz and Denton v. State, 299 Ark. 144, 772 S.W.2d 297 (1989) (affirmance of imposition of death sentence after resentencing proceeding). (After escaping from an…