State v. Davidson

OPINION

JANICE M. HOLDER, J,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which FRANK F. DROWOTA, III, C.J., and WILLIAM M. BARKER, JJ., joined. E. RILEY ANDERSON, J., filed a dissenting opinion, joined in part by ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., J., who also filed a dissenting opinion.

The defendant, Jerry Ray Davidson, was convicted of premeditated murder and aggravated kidnapping. He was sentenced to death for the premeditated murder and to a consecutive sentence of twenty years for the aggravated kidnapping. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the convictions and the sentences. Thereafter, the case was…