Hamilton v. Mullin

TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

This death penalty appeal arises out of the 1992 killings of four employees of Lee’s Famous Recipe Chicken Restaurant in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the course of a robbery in which Corey Hamilton participated, the employees were placed in a food locker and forced to kneel at gunpoint. Hamilton shot each in the head. A jury convicted Hamilton of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of robbery with a firearm.

At sentencing, the jury found four aggravating circumstances as to each murder. Accordingly, upon the jury’s recommendation, the trial court imposed the death…