State v. Bondurant

OPINION

DROWOTA, J.

In this appeal, the defendant, Pat Bon-durant, was convicted of premeditated first degree murder and arson. Upon finding that the State had proven two statutory aggravating circumstances 1 be yond a reasonable doubt and that there were no mitigating circumstances sufficiently substantial to outweigh the aggravating circumstances, the jury sentenced the defendant to death by electrocution on the conviction for first degree murder. On the arson conviction, the trial court sentenced the defendant to ten years consecutive to the death penalty. The Court of Criminal Appeals…