Opinion ID: 2344370
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Precedent-seeking review Overall culpability.

Text: Defendant's moral blameworthiness is quite high, the victimization in the case was severe, and his character, while not uniformly bad, does not weigh in his favor. On the basis of the foregoing discussion, defendant's criminal culpability does not render this death sentence irrational or aberrant. State v. Martini (II), supra, 139 N.J. at 47, 651 A. 2d 949. Nor does it indicate that defendant was singled out unfairly for capital punishment. Ibid. None of the considerations that underlie this analysis clearly support defendant. See State v. Papasavvas (II), supra, 170 N.J. at 484, 790 A. 2d 798. He is slightly less culpable under some considerations than others, but none of the considerations clearly offend the proportionality of a death sentence for this defendant and his crime.