defendant murdered two women
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- defendant murdered two women
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The opinion
PARKS, Presiding Judge,
specially concurring:
I write separately only to emphasize that it is our State statute, not the United States or Oklahoma constitution, which prohibits resentencing of this appellant. As Judge Brett has explained in the course of his opinion, 21 O.S.1981, § 701.13(E) allows this Court one remedy only if error has tainted the validity of the sentencing stage of trial, and that is to modify the sentence to life imprisonment. The Attorney General’s public policy arguments against this statute are therefore better addressed to the Legislature, rather than this Court.