Opinion ID: 1836662
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Heading: whether flowers was denied his fundamental and constitutional right to a fair sentencing hearing by the submission of the great risk of death to many persons aggravating circumstance.

Text: ¶ 90. Flowers next argues that by obtaining four separate indictments, the State was forced to rely on the other three victims to prove the aggravating factor of knowingly created a great risk of death to many persons. Flowers claims that where the conduct alleged to constitute a great risk of death to many persons was the same conduct that was the subject of other indictments for which the death penalty is also sought, the use of this factor violated the Eighth Amendment, the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment and Mississippi law. The State argues that this particular claim has previously been addressed and rejected by this Court. The State also asserts that the lack of objections serves as a procedural bar to this issue. But, as stated above, we will address this issue under the plain error rule.