Riley v. State

OPINION

A jury convicted the appellant, Billy Ray Riley, of first degree murder with use of a deadly weapon and robbery with use of a deadly weapon. Thereafter, Riley was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life without the possibility of parole and to a sentence of death. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the convictions and the sentences imposed pursuant to those convictions, including the sentence of death.

THE FACTS

Albert “Ramrod” Bollin was killed by a single gunshot wound to the chest on October 1, 1989. The weapon used to kill Bollin was a sawed-off .410 caliber shotgun that…