Can Prosecutor ''Inject'' Emotion and Fear Into the Jury ?

In Rhodes v. State, 547 So.2d 1201 (Fla. 1989), the prosecutor compared the defendant to a vampire without justification, improperly argued that the heinous atrocious and cruel (HAC) aggravator applied based on the defendant's actions after the body was dead, and clearly misstated the law with regard to a mandatory twenty-five year sentence for first-degree murder. In Garron v. State, 528 So.2d 353 (Fla. 1988), the frequency and egregiousness of the comments justified reversal of the defendant's death sentence and remand for a new trial. The prosecutor in Garron repeatedly misstated the law and injected emotion and fear into the trial "in such a way as to render the whole proceeding meaningless." Garron, 528 So.2d at 359.