Court Opinion

ID: 9473518
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 04:31:51.853092+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:43:34.484437
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
Before GODBOLD, Chief Judge, RO-NEY, TJOFLAT, HILL, FAY, VANCE, KRAVITCH, JOHNSON, HENDERSON, HATCHETT, ANDERSON and CLARK, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
IT IS ORDERED that the petition for rehearing filed in the above entitled and numbered cause be and the same is hereby Denied.
CLARK, Circuit Judge, specially concurring, with whom KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge, joins:
I concur in the decision of the en banc court to deny rehearing in this ease. However, I do so only because I believe that even using the standard promulgated by the Supreme Court in Caldwell v. Mississippi, — U.S. -, 105 S.Ct. 2633, 86 L.Ed.2d 231 (1985), it can safely be said in this case that the prosecutor’s improper argument “had no effect on the sentencing decision” and thus, the death sentence meets the constitutional “standard of reliability that the Eighth Amendment requires.” Caldwell, supra, at -, 105 S.Ct. at 2646.