ADOLPHO A. BIRCH, JR., J., dissenting. In a line of dissents, I have maintained that the comparative proportionality review process currently embraced by this Court fails. It fails because it does not operate to protect defendants from the arbitrary and disproportionate imposition of the death penalty. See, e.g., State v. Godsey, <a href="/opinion/1060421/state…
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