Opinion ID: 1700705
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 17

Heading: The Trial Court's Refusal to Allow the Jury to Hear Testimony Regarding the Discriminatory Manner in which the Death Penalty is Administered.

Text: Outside the presence of the jury, defense counsel was allowed to make a record of testimony by Rev. David A. Garcia which the court ruled inadmissible. Garcia testified about his finding on various studies concerning the effect and imposition of the death penalty, and that even after Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S.Ct. 2726, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972), the death penalty is still applied cruelly and arbitrarily. Jackson v. State, supra , is authority sustaining the trial court's action, and this assignment is without merit. There being no reversible errors in the record, and the appellant having received a fair trial, the case is affirmed and Friday, the eighth day of September, 1978 is set as the date for execution of the sentence and infliction of the death penalty in the manner provided by law. AFFIRMED AND FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1978 IS SET FOR EXECUTION OF DEATH PENALTY. PATTERSON, C.J., SMITH and ROBERTSON, P. JJ., and SUGG, WALKER, BROOM, BOWLING and COFER, JJ., concur.