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- Title: Commonwealth Pennsylvania v. Martin Daniel Appel
- Author : Supreme Court of Tennessee
- Release Date : January 04, 1988
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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The instant case comes before this Court on automatic direct appeal, pursuant to section 9711(h) of the Sentencing Code, 42 Pa.C.S. ? 9711(h), from sentences of death imposed by the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County on three counts of first degree murder. The appellant, Martin Daniel Appel, has, throughout these proceedings, waived his right to counsel, and has declined to file a brief on his own behalf. Appellant has, in fact, expressed his desire to die in the electric chair, and views the instant appeal merely as an impediment to that end. Nevertheless, automatic review by this Court in all cases in which the sentence of death has been imposed is an integral and absolutely essential procedural safeguard prescribed by the legislature in the enactment of Pennsylvanias death penalty statute, 42