Opinion ID: 1711117
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 13

Heading: Whether the Death Sentence was Disproportionate

Text: ¶ 28. Brown asserts that this Court denied his right to due process on direct appeal by conducting a perfunctory analysis of his claim that his death sentence was disproportionate. The Court's opinion clearly reflects that it under undertook a serious review of whether Brown's death sentence was disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar case, considering both the crime and the defendant. Miss.Code Ann. § 99-19-105(3). The Court's opinion announced Since Jackson v. State, 337 So.2d 1242 (Miss.1976), this Court has upheld the imposition of the death penalty in the cases listed in the appendix. We have carefully reviewed those cases in the appendix and compared them with the case and sentence sub judice. We find that the sentence of death in the case sub judice was not imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; that the evidence supports the jury's finding of statutory aggravating circumstances listed in Miss.Code Ann. § 99-19-101(5) (Supp.1983); and, after considering the crime and the appellant, we find further that the sentence of death in this case is not excessive or disproportionate to other similar case in which such sentence has been imposed. Brown, 682 So.2d at 357. No further explanation was necessary. This issue is without merit.