I won't opine about the 5-2 dispute between the majority and the dissent about whether there was a Batson error here. You can read the entire 139-page thing on that point if you would like.
I will only say that this is one of those cases where even someone like me might want to sentence the defendant to death. Not the only one, for sure. But one.
Because Theodore Shove III does indeed seem like an affirmatively evil person.
Regardless, Shove is now 74 years old. He's going to die in prison. As a practical matter vis-a-vis his sentence, no big deal either way.
