Court Opinion

ID: 9722835
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 09:52:05.48078+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:59:51.670027
License: Public Domain

PRENTICE, Justice,
concurring in result.
I concur in the result, and I agree that the death sentence is lawful and reasonable in this case.
Our statutes and rules appear to give reasonable assurance that the death penalty cannot be arbitrarily and capriciously inflicted and thus to comport to the requirements of those recent decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States cited in the majority opinion and upholding the death penalty laws of several of our sister states. There are some differences, however, between the provisions of our laws and those there approved. It should be noted that the effect of those differences, and hence the constitutionality of our procedures, has not been adversarily tested. That testing has been waived in this case.