Court Opinion

ID: 9632708
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:22:13.449257+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:58:46.715661
License: Public Domain

LUMPKIN, Vice Presiding Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the Court’s decision in this case, however, I do not agree with the Court’s implication that a Mills v. Maryland, 486 U.S. 367, 108 S.Ct. 1860, 100 L.Ed.2d 384 (1988), analysis is required in this case. The Court should simply note that Mills is not applicable to the Oklahoma capital sentencing procedure. The Maryland sentencing procedure is distinctly different from the procedure applied in Oklahoma. Therefore, the Court should refrain from creating a misconception that *36Mills addresses the sentencing procedure utilized in Oklahoma.