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Heading: Ill 2d 129, 146 (1981); People ex rel. Carey v. Cousins, 77 Ill.

Text: 2d 531, 534-43 (1979). We have also held that the statute is not invalid for failing to require the prosecution to provide the defense with pretrial notice of its intent to seek a sentence of death (People v. Silagy, 101 Ill. 2d 147, 161-62 (1984); People v. Gaines, 88 Ill. 2d 342, 369 (1981)) or of pretrial notice of the aggravating evidence to be used at a capital sentencing hearing (People v. King, 109 Ill. 2d 514, 547 (1986); People v. Albanese, 104 Ill. 2d 504, 540 (1984); Gaines, 88 Ill. 2d at 369). Nor is the statute invalid for not requiring the sentencer to provide a written memorial of its findings in the case. King, 109 Ill. 2d at 550-51; People v. Stewart, 104 Ill. 2d 463, 499 (1984); People v. Brownell, 79 Ill. 2d 508, 541-44 (1980). The death penalty statute is not invalid for failing to impose a burden of persuasion on the prosecution at the second stage of the hearing (People v. Jones, 123 Ill. 2d 387, 426 (1988); People v. Eddmonds, 101 Ill. 2d 44, 68 (1984); People v. Free, 94 Ill. 2d 378, 421 (1983)), and the statute does not invalidly impose on the defense a burden of establishing that a sentence other than death should be imposed (People v. Fields, 135 Ill. 2d 18, 76 (1990); People v. Orange, 121