Pinkton v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
481 So.2d 306 (1985)
Adam Lee PINKTON
v.
STATE of Mississippi.
No. 55806.
Supreme Court of Mississippi.
November 27, 1985.
Boyd P. Atkinson and Raymond L. Wong, Cleveland, for appellant.
Edwin Lloyd Pittman, Atty. Gen. by William S. Boyd, III and Marvin L. White, Jr., Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.
En Banc.
ANDERSON, Justice, for the Court:
Adam Lee Pinkton pled guilty to capital murder in the Circuit Court of Bolivar County and was sentenced to die. Mississippi's capital murder statute requires, as a prerequisite to the imposition of the death penalty, a specific written finding by the…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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