DAN M. LEE, Presiding Justice, for the Court:
On July 18, 1989, Parchman inmate Willie Russell stabbed Correction Officer Argentra Cotton, who subsequently died from the wounds. Russell was indicted as an habitual offender for the capital crime of killing a peace officer acting in his official capacity as a Correctional Officer of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in violation of Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-19(2)(a) (1972). On October 4, 1990, following a jury trial...
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