Opinion ID: 2569354
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Heading Rank: 48

Heading: Whether the death sentence was improperly based on duplicative aggravating factors.

Text: Harlan contends that the jury's decision to impose the death penalty was improperly based largely on two statutory aggravating factors  subsection (5)(d) (kidnapping) and subsection (5)(g) (felony murder with kidnapping as a predicate felony)  that were duplicative and overlapped each other. Because second degree kidnapping was one of the predicate felonies for the (5)(g) aggravating factor, as well as a basis for the (5)(d) aggravating factor, Harlan argues that these two aggravating factors were so similar that their use by the jury in their deliberations unfairly skewed the third and fourth steps against him. We rejected this same argument in Davis, 794 P.2d at 188-89; recently reaffirmed this holding in Dunlap, 975 P.2d at 747-49; and see no reason to revisit the issue now.