State of Arizona v. Shawn Patrick Lynch

How courts have described this case

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• concluding cruelty aggravator shown by evidence that victim was conscious and secured to chair, indicating he had “ample time to contemplate his fate”
• noting that this Court “independently review[s] the trial court’s findings of aggravation and mitigation and the propriety of the death sentence . . . de novo” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• rejecting requirement to give parole ineligibility instruction where executive clemency made future release possible
• illustrating improper commentary towards counsel as suggesting defense counsel fabricated evidence
• “The trial court found that the State’s proffered reasons for the strikes were race neutral, implicitly ruling that Lynch did not carry his burden of proving purposeful racial discrimination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).