McCoy v. State
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled guilty to first-degree murder with a firearm. After a penalty-phase proceeding conducted before a jury, the trial court imposed the death sentence for the murder. The Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and sentence of death, holding (1) the trial court did not abuse its discretion in finding and assigning great weight to a cold, calculated, and premeditated (CCP) aggravator; (2) Defendant's death sentence was a proportionate punishment in this case; (3) Defendant failed to present any compelling reason for the Court to reconsider its established precedent on the issue of whether a mental illness rendered Defendant's execution unconstitutional; and (4) Defendant's guilty plea was knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily entered.
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