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IN RE HEIDNIK

720 A.2d 1016 (1998)

In re Gary M. HEIDNIK. Petition of Maxine Davidson WHITE, Next Friend.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided August 19, 1998.

Reargument Denied September 15, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Billy H. Nolas, Robert Brett Dunham, Philadelphia, for Maxine D. White.

Ronald Eisenberg, Christopher Diviny, Catherine Marshall, Philadelphia, for Com.

Before FLAHERTY, C.J., and ZAPPALA, CAPPY, NIGRO and NEWMAN, JJ.

OPINION

ZAPPALA, Justice.

Following a whirlwind of activity generated out of a warrant of execution,1 we entered a stay and granted a Petition for Review in order to examine, with due reflection and deliberation apart from an `emergency' setting, certain threshold issues2 that are likely to recur in the carrying out of capital sentences. Of particular concern are two issues relating to the...

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