State v. Gibbs

PARKER, Justice.

Defendant was tried capitally for the murders of Louise Farris and her children, Shamika Farris and William Earl Farris, Jr.; and pursuant to the jury’s unanimous recommendation was sentenced to death for each of the three murders. For the reasons set out herein, we conclude the jury selection, guilt-innocence, and sentencing phases of defendant’s trial were free from prejudicial error and the death sentences are not disproportionate.

State’s evidence tended to show defendant was married to Ann Gibbs, whose mother and siblings were the murder victims. The families lived in…