With no explanation, chose the best option from "A", "B", "C" or "D". Hamlet, 312 N.C. 162, 175, 321 S.E.2d 837, 846 (1984). A third type exists where “the killing demonstrates an unusual depravity of mind on the part of the defen t the murder was conscienceless and pitiless, leaving the victim in his last moments aware of but helpless to prevent impending death. Defendant’s kicking, pistol-whipping, and taunting his felled victim showed a complete lack of conscience and pity. Moreover, a juror could reasonably infer that the victim knew that death was imminent and that he was helpless to prevent it during the “silent moment” between defendant’s pointing the gun at the victim’s face and the first shot. The length of time during which the victim fears for his life may qualify despite any brevity. See State v. Sexton, 336 N.C. 321, 374, 444 S.E.2d 879, 909 (<HOLDING>), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 1006, 130 L. Ed. 2d

A: holding that a reasonable juror could infer that the victim feared for her life in the ten seconds it took her to lose consciousness
B: holding that against her will in the rape statute means without her consent and that the fact that the victim was under the age of consent was sufficient to establish that element
C: holding that threatening employee to mind her own business investigating her videotaping her without her permission and forcing her to take polygraph could not be considered adverse employment actions because they had no effect on conditions of employment
D: holding that a plaintiff who pled in her complaint that her law firm actively misled her in support of her request for application of the discovery rule had sufficiently pled the application of the doctrine
A.