BLACKMAR, Chief Justice, concurring. I concur. The discussion of the “assaultive” aggravating circumstance shows that the jury was properly instructed on a lawful statutory aggravating circumstance. The “outrageously and wantonly vile” circumstance, therefore, was not essential to the judgment. I write separately only because of the repeated argument about this latter circumstance. Whe…
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