Opinion ID: 2103748
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 21

Heading: Discretion of Prosecutor to Seek Death

Text: The defendant claims that our death penalty statute is unconstitutional because the prosecuting attorney is given overbroad and unfettered discretion in seeking the death penalty. This contention has been rejected repeatedly. Coleman v. State (1990), Ind., 558 N.E.2d 1059, 1065, cert. denied (1991), 501 U.S. 1259, 111 S.Ct. 2912, 115 L.Ed.2d 1075; Games v. State (1989), Ind., 535 N.E.2d 530, 537, cert. denied, 493 U.S. 874, 110 S.Ct. 205, 107 L.Ed.2d 158; Fleenor, 514 N.E.2d at 90. We decline to reconsider this issue.