Chief Justice CAPPY, concurring. I join the majority opinion save for footnote 35 on pages 593-94, 913 A.2d at 274. Respectfully, I disagree with the interpretation the majority forwards regarding “future dangerousness” as that concept has evolved in Pennsylvania. Although Simmons 1 itself may have narrowly limited the instruction requirement to instances when “future dangerousn…
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