dissenting as to sentence.
For the reasons expressed in the Chief Justice’s dissenting opinions in State v. McKoy, 323 N.C. 1, 372 S.E. 2d 12 and in *439State v. Allen, 323 N.C. 208, 372 S.E. 2d 855 (1988), I believe the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Mills v. Maryland, 486 U.S. ---, 100 L.Ed. 2d 384 (1988), requires that defendants be given new sentencing hearings. Accordingly, I dissent from that portion of the Court’s opinion which rejects defendants’ arguments based upon the holding of Mills. I concur in the result reached by the majority on the guilt phase issues.