State v. Sowell

We are confronted today by issues concerning the convictions and death sentence of appellant. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the judgment of the court of appeals and uphold the sentence of death.

I

In his first proposition of law, appellant contends that his death sentence must be set aside because the court of appeals refused to consider his voluntary intoxication at the time of the offense to be a mitigating factor.

The trial court considered appellant’s intoxication and drug use as factors relevant to the issue of whether appellant should receive the death sentence, but gave these…