“When a capital defendant claims that he was prejudiced at sentencing because counsel failed to present available mitigating evidence, a court must decide whether it is reasonably likely that the additional evidence would have avoided a death sentence,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority.

The George W. Bush appointee said the Arizona Supreme Court has never vacated a death sentence for someone who committed multiple murders or any of the other aggravating circumstances in Jones’ case.

If true, it sounds like those mitigating factors wouldn’t have changed a thing