Overturning what it called an “erroneous” precedent, the Supreme Court has decided that there is no requirement to weigh “proportionality” in death sentences.

The October 29 decision upheld the death sentence of Jonathan Huey Lawrence for the 1998 murder of 18-year-old Jennifer Robinson in Santa Rosa County.

Defense attorneys argued, in part, that the sentence was not proportional when compared with other sentences because of the defendant’s mental-health issues.