Mr. Troy was convicted of the murder of 20-year-old Bonnie Carroll, who was beaten and fatally stabbed in her apartment in September 2001. Mr. Troy had been released from prison on conditional release several weeks earlier but was told he would be returned to prison after failing a drug test the night of Carroll's murder. The jury voted 11-1 to recommend he be sentenced to death and he was condemned. This is his direct appeal and, among other claims, he challenges the constitutionality of a 1999 statute that did away with the defense of voluntary intoxication.