Pfeifer, J., dissenting. The aggravating circumstances in this case fail to outweigh the mitigating factors, and I therefore dissent from the majority’s decision upholding Shawm Hawkins’s death sentence. The key mitigating factor in this case is residual doubt. The truth of what really happened in the early morning of June 12, 1989 died with Diamond Marteen and Terrance Richard. The trial below was filled <pag…
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