ANDERSON, Justice, for the Court:
Adam Lee Pinkton pled guilty to capital murder in the Circuit Court of Bolivar County and was sentenced to die. Mississippi's capital murder statute requires, as a prerequisite to the imposition of the death penalty, a specific written finding by the jury relating to the defendant's actions and intent. Pinkton's appeal presents us with the question of whether the law requires such a finding in the sentencing phase of a bifurcated...
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