The Court concluded that Texas's narrow legal definition of capital murder served the same purpose as the aggravating factors in the Georgia and Florida schemes, that being to adequately narrow the class of defendants eligible for the death penalty. The Court even observed that "the principal difference between Texas and the other two States and Florida is that the death penalty is an available sentencing option - even potentially - for a smaller class of murders in Texas" (a somewhat ironic observation in retrospect, given that Texas is the most active in sentencing capital murder defendants to the death penalty).