State v. Jester

This court is required to review the facts and circumstances of appellant’s conviction, as well as to independently weigh the aggravating circumstances against the mitigating factors. We must also consider the proportionality of appellant’s death sentence. We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals for the reasons set forth below.

I

In his first proposition of law, appellant asserts that he cannot be convicted of aggravated murder on the basis of specification one of count one of the indictment, because it could not reasonably be construed that he committed the offense with the purpose of…