State v. Baskerville

I concur in the affirmance of the judgment, but this is another case, as were State v. Holmes, 609 S.W.2d 132 (Mo.1980) and State v. Hudgins, 612 S.W.2d 769 (Mo.1981), where in order to enable us to carry out our statutory duty of determining whether death sentences are “excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant”, § 565.014.3(3),' RSMo 1978, our opinion must contain a statement of the facts, even though the penalty assessed was life without parole or probation for fifty years rather than death.

The case before us…