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arrived
work
date
death
employees
entered
store
found
stabbed
death
restaurant
safe
open
previous
day
receipts
missing
trial
issue
whether
hurst
committed
murder
suggestion
murder
occur
robbery
alternative
scenario
example
cynthia
harrison
first
murdered
one
person
reason
robbery
second
person
came
upon
scene
shortly
murder
somehow
gained
access
emptied
popeye
safe
fanciful
evidence
concerning
second
aggravating
factor
murder
especially
heinous
atrocious
cruel
also
overwhelming
cynthia
harrison
bound
gagged
stabbed
times
injuries
included
facial
cuts
went
way
underlying
bone
cuts
eyelid
region
top
lip
large
cut
neck
almost
severed
trachea
estimated
death
taken
long
minutes
occur
trial
characterized
manner
death
follows
utter
terror
pain
harrison
likely
experienced
incident
unfathomable
words
inadequate
describe
death
photographs
introduced
evidence
depict
person
bound
rendered
helpless
brutally
savagely
unmercifully
slashed
disfigured
murder
harrison
conscienceless
pitiless
unnecessarily
torturous
light
evidence
defies
belief
suggest
jury
found
existence
either
aggravating
factor
finding
binding
years
passed
since
cynthia
harrison
brutally
murdered
interest
bringing
protracted
litigation
close
rule
issue
harmless
error
affirm
decision
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