Court Opinion

ID: 9746735
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 14:35:25.397657+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:16.404592
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*17NIX, Chief Justice,
concurring.
I agree with the majority’s conclusion that you cannot find ineffective assistance of counsel predicated upon counsel’s failure to pursue the objection to the exclusion of veniremen due to their reluctance to impose the death penalty. Nevertheless, I am still in disagreement with the decisions in this Commonwealth that permit a death-prone jury to be impaneled in these cases where capital punishment is an available sanction. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. Peterkin, 511 Pa. 299, 330, 513 A.2d 373, 389 (1986) (Nix, C.J., concurring).