ARBUCKLE

v.

SCOTT, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF ILLINOIS, ET AL.

Citator

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• Terry v. State, 668 So. 2d 954 (Fla. 1996)
  …112 L.Ed.2d 1106 (1991). In reaching this decision, we are also mindful that “[d]eath is a unique punishment in its finality and in its total rejection of the possibility of rehabilitation.” State v. Dixon, 283 So. 2d 1, 7 (Fla.1973), cert. denied, 416 U.S. 943, 94 S.Ct. 1950, 40 L.Ed.2d 295 (1974). Consequently, its application is reserved only for those cases where the most aggravating and least mitigating circumstances exist. Id.; Kramer v. State, 619 So. 2d 274, 278 (Fla.1993). We conclude that this ho…
• Maxwell v. Louie L. Wainwright, 490 So. 2d 927 (Fla. 1986)
  …, the argument is without merit. The instruction followed the statutory words as refined and construed by this Court. See Proffitt v. Florida, 428 U.S. 242, 96 S.Ct. 2960, 49 L.Ed.2d 913 (1976); State v. Dixon, 283 So. 2d 1 (Fla.1973), cert. denied, 416 U.S. 943, 94 S.Ct. 1950, 40 L.Ed.2d 295 (1974). Appellant argues that the sentencing proceeding culminating in his sentence of death was fundamentally unfair because of the failure to disclose the contents of a presentence investigation report to him. As we…
• Hardwick v. State, 521 So. 2d 1071 (Fla. 1988)
  …is factor requires evidence that the killing was so unnecessarily torturous, conscienceless or pitiless as to set the crime apart from the norm of capital felonies. State v. Dixon, 283 So. 2d 1, 9 (Fla.1973), cert. denied sub nom. Hunter v. Florida, 416 U.S. 943, 94 S.Ct. 1950, 40 L.Ed.2d 295 (1974). The medical examiner testified that Pullum was conscious as long as six minutes after the initial wound was inflicted". During this time, he was repeatedly stabbed, then was shot and beaten. Under these facts,…

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