Commonwealth v. Woodard, A., Aplt.

*171 OPINION

Justice BAER.

This is a direct appeal from a sentence of death imposed by the Court of Common Pleas of York County upon Aric Shayne Woodard (Appellant) following his conviction of first degree murder of a two-year-old boy.1 For the reasons that follow, we affirm the judgment of sentence of death.

The record establishes that on Sunday, November 6, 2011, at approximately 1:00 p.m., Hayley Twinn, the mother of two-year-old Jaques Twinn, left him and his baby sister in Appellant’s care. At nineteen years of age, Hayley was overwhelmed with being a mother and relied upon Appellant to watch…