AP) The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania upheld a death sentence Tuesday of a man convicted of killing a woman, dismembering her and dumping her body parts along Interstate 80 and 380 in Monroe and Lackawanna counties.

A jury convicted Charles Ray Hicks Jr. of Coolbaugh Twp. in 2014 for first-degree murder of the 36-year-old Scranton woman Deanna Null and other crimes in Monroe County Court. The jury, some weeping, sentenced him to death. Monroe County President Judge Margherita Patti Worthington formally imposed that decision weeks later.

All death penalties are automatically reviewed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which can cancel the sentence.

The state’s highest court did not. The court’s majority opinion found “sufficient evidence” to uphold the conviction. The seven-person court ruled in favor of the conviction and death sentence by a 5-2 vote.

“Our careful review of the record reveals the (death) sentence was not the product of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor,” the judges wrote.

The two dissenting justices, Christine Donohue and David Wecht, each wrote their own opinion.

For the case of the 2008 murder, the Monroe County district attorney’s office considered dropping the death penalty against Hicks, now 42, in exchange for information on murders he’s suspected of committing in Texas, but he failed to provide sufficient information to seal the deal, a county detective said.