Justice LONG, dissenting. For proportionality review purposes, Brian Wakefield’s cohort is made up of a motley crew of life-sentenced multiple murderers, who laid in wait for their victims and bludgeoned, shot, stabbed, and scissored to death men, women, and children of all ages. Wakefield’s crimes, execrable as they were, were in fact not “worse” than those of his comparators and the personal stories of those i…
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