State v. Keough

OPINION

The defendant, Roy E. Keough, was convicted of one count of premeditated first degree murder and one count of attempted first degree murder. The jury imposed a death sentence after finding that evidence of an aggravating circumstance, i.e., that the defendant was previously convicted of one or more felonies whose statutory elements involve the use of violence to the person, 1 outweighed evidence of mitigating circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt. The trial judge found the defendant to be a Range II, multiple offender and imposed a sentence of forty years for the attempted first…