MR CURRIN
We are wanting to say to you that one could
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argue that many crimes are grave, and we are not trying to
say this was not a grave crime, but we are saying to you that when you consider that particular paragraph, in deciding whether or not to grant the application, there are certain factors that you should take into consideration, when looking at gravity.  We would like to mention some of those factors, which don't take away the gravity.  I am not sure that gravity is an absolute term.  We are saying that it is not an absolute term.  We are trying to illustrate to you that there are factors which you should take into consideration when considering the gravity, without saying it wasn't grave.
	The first one is, as I have already indicated, that the murder was not premeditated.  Having said that, we ask ourselves:  why was this murder committed.  We have heard that it was committed in extraordinary circumstances.  It was committed against a particular political background, immediate circumstances and we have heard also about the crazy mad frenzy that was happening at the time.  We have heard about the anger, we have heard about the frustration.  We also know from the record, from the judgment on sentence, that there was evidence dealing with de-individuation.  
	We would submit that that is also a factor that should be taken into consideration as a mitigating factor in the context of gravity.