State v. Quinlan

OPINION

Justice GOLDBERG,

for the Court.

We undertake this case noting that:

“[I]n March of 2001, these two criminals committed two of the most brutal murders that this Court has heard recounted in many years. From the photographs and the crime scene videotape that was presented, it was apparent that these two defendants virtually painted the walls and floors of that apartment with blood. The victims were brutalized with a hammer, with vicious combat knives, even while one of them begged for his life.

“It wasn’t enough that these two defendants brutalized and tortured their victims but afterwards,…