Charles Sylvester Stamper v. Commonwealth of Virginia

Summary

The Court affirmed Stamper's three capital-murder convictions and death sentences. It held that the consent search was voluntary, the challenged circumstantial and sentencing evidence was relevant and properly admitted, and the evidence as a whole proved both the murders and the accompanying robbery beyond a reasonable doubt. On independent capital-sentence review, the Court found no arbitrary influence and concluded that the death sentences were neither excessive nor disproportionate.