PIVARNIK, Justice.
Defendant-appellant, Thomas N. Schiro, was convicted of Murder While Committing or Attempting to Commit Rape, Ind. Code § 35-42-1-1(2) (Burns Repl. 1979), at the conclusion of a jury trial in Brown Circuit Court on September 12, 1981. The trial court sentenced Schiro to death. He now appeals.
Schiro raises seven errors on appeal, concerning:
1) whether the Indiana death penalty statute, Ind. Code § 35-50-2-9 (Burns Repl...
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