Chief Appellate Defender Robert M. Dudek and Appellate Defender David Alexander, both of Columbia, for Appellant. Attorney General Alan M. Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka and Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Melody J. Brown, all of Columbia and Solicitor Barry J. Barnette, of Spartanburg, for Respondent. Meliah Bowers Jefferson, of Wyche, P.A., of Greenville, for Amicus Curiae National Crime Victim Law Institute. Lindsey D. Jacobs and Patricia Ravenhorst, both of Greenville, for Amicus Curiae South Carolina Victim Assistance Network.

In this death penalty appeal, appellant challenges the circuit court's rulings regarding appellant's eligibility to receive the death penalty, juror selection, the exclusion of evidence, and appellant's right to cross-examine a State's witness.

Attorney General Alan M. Wilson, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Senior Assistant Deputy Attorney General Donald J. Zelenka, Assistant Attorney General J. Anthony Mabry and Assistant Attorney General Alphonso Simon, Jr., all of Columbia, for Petitioner. Emily C. Paavola, of Justice 360, of Columbia and John R. Mills of San Francisco, California, for Respondent.

This court granted certiorari to review the post-conviction relief court's grant of relief as to Louis Michael Winkler, Jr.'s death sentence.