In re Shewchun

How later courts describe this case

• submission of this mitigating circumstance to the jury proper, notwithstanding a record showing eighteen felony convictions, all acquired during defendant's youth
• submission of this mitigating cir cumstance to the jury proper, notwithstanding a record showing eighteen felony convictions, all acquired during defendant’s youth
• where this Court approved the submission of this mitigating circumstance to the jury, over defendant’s objection, notwithstanding a record showing eighteen felony convictions
• circumstance supported where victim shot six times and suffered intense pain for up to fifteen minutes before dying
• refers to the phrases disjunctively; finding permissible when brutality exceeds that which is normally present in any killing, or when murder was conscienceless, pitiless, or unnecessarily torturous to the victim
• prior conviction of a violent felony; heinous, atrocious, or cruel