St. Clair v. Roark

How courts have described this case

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• overruling Wilson’s holding that a double jeopardy violation occurs in convicting a defendant of both the murder and the capital kidnaping of the same victim and imposing separate death sentences for each conviction
• “The offense of murder contains an element, i.e., either intent to kill ..., or aggravated wantonness ..., which is not required to enhance kidnapping from a class A[sic] felony to a capital offense.”
• \The flaw in this reasoning [is] the conclusion that the murder of the victim is the element which enhances the offense of kidnapping from a class A felony to a capital offense. Not so. It is the death of the victim which enhances kidnapping to a capital offense.\ Id.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).