Opinion ID: 1595336
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Heading: Proposed sentencing instruction Number 4 Residual doubt.

Text: ¶ 110. Ross contends that the trial court erred in refusing his fourth proposed sentencing instruction, which instructed jurors to consider as a mitigating circumstance the possibility of residual doubt about Ross' guilt. Both the United States Supreme Court and this Court have held that a capital defendant is not entitled to an instruction on residual doubt. Holland v. State, 705 So.2d 307, 325-27 (Miss.1997); Franklin v. Lynaugh, 487 U.S. 164, 174, 108 S.Ct. 2320, 101 L.Ed.2d 155 (1988). The trial court did not err in refusing this proposed instruction.