Ladner v. State

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• finding no error on the part of the trial court despite defendant’s contention that the lower court erred in giving the “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel” instruction because the “jury did not base its imposition of the death penalty on this factor”
• modified on other grounds by Willie v. State, 585 So.2d 660 (Miss. 1991)
• “not be influenced by sympathy does not” mean that the jury is instructed to 155 disregard sympathy
• State is entitled to rebuttal as long as it does not suggest that the jury should not consider the mitigating circumstances
• “The general rule is that evidence must be limited to the criminal activity charged in the indictment 12 and evidence of other crimes must be excluded.”
• cert den. 502 U.S. 1015, 112 S.Ct. 663, 116 L.Ed.2d 754

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