Court Opinion

ID: 9643526
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 20:32:07.557818+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:01.215702
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NIGRO, Justice,
concurring.
I join in Mr. Justice Zappala’s concurring opinion for the reasons more fully explained in my concurring opinion in Commonwealth v. Clark, 551 Pa. 258, 710 A.2d 31, 43-44 (Pa.1998) (Nigro, J., concurring). As I noted in Clark, I believe that a standard Simmons instruction should be given in all capital cases and should also include, in addition to the information recommended by Justice Zappala in footnote one of his concurring opinion, statistical information relating to the percentage of life sentences which have been commuted within the last several years.