Hydroculture, Inc. v. Coopers

Defendant claimed that death penalty visited upon poor persons and male persons in disproportionate numbers | Defendant claimed that death penalty visited upon poor persons and male persons in disproportionate numbers | defendant is entitled to impartial judge but not one totally ignorant of previous proceedings | where victim “died almost instantly from a single gunshot wound [to the chest],” state failed to prove aggravating circumstance of “especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manner” | state must prove aggravating circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt | state must prove aggravating circumstances beyond a reasonable doubt | wherein accomplices had not even been prosecuted for the offense | burden on defendant to show mitigating circumstances | two accomplices to murder never charged