Sentences with phrase «capital sentencing»
The thinking is that if this line becomes the norm, many capital sentences will fail these criteria.
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The prosecution counters that the evidence shouldn't be admitted, but under the relaxed standards for mitigating evidence during capital sentencing, it usually is.
The defense argued that ``... Alabama's capital sentencing statute is unconstitutional because it does not specify the weight the judge must give to the jury's recommendation and thus permits arbitrary imposition of the death penalty.»
Columbia Law School has recently published a powerful report on the percentage of reversible errors in capital sentences from 1973 to 1995.
And, as further discussed in this post, her successor could have a profound impact on the Supreme Court's capital sentencing jurisprudence.
In Hurst v. Florida, the SCOTUS ruled that Florida's capital sentencing law was unconstitutional because, as reported by the Times, «the Sixth Amendment requires a jury, not a judge, to find each fact necessary to impose a sentence of death.»
In 1569 in Holland, a Mennonite named Dirk Willems, under capital sentence as a heretic, was fleeing from arrest, pursued by a «thief - catcher.»
Turning to Christian tradition, we may note that the Fathers and Doctors of the Church are virtually unanimous in their support for capital punishment, even though some of them such as St. Ambrose exhort members of the clergy not to pronounce capital sentences or serve as executioners.
In recent posts, I have spotlighted the impact of the Supreme Court's heightened scrutiny in capital cases lately, and I have also discussed Justice O'Connor's capital sentencing legacy.
Today, over at the SCONo blog in this recent post, Tom Goldstein covers related ground in noting that SCOTUS «has before it for next Term four cases involving capital sentencing that the Court could use to turn in the direction of still greater deference to the states» administration of the death penalty.»
But I seriously doubt this jurisprudence will become a central part of the public dialogue in the way capital sentencing could.)
Though I am most excited today by Colorado Supreme Court's big Blakely opinion in Lopez (which I hope to comment upon at length in future posts), other bloggers who are not quite so Blakely - addled are buzzing about SCOTUS's capital sentencing work today in Deck and Medellin (basics here).
She based her ruling on the Hurst decision, and declared Alabama's «capital sentencing scheme» to be unconstitutional.
Dylann Roof represented himself at his federal capital sentencing trial phase.
Alabama's capital sentencing statute is unique.
But according to a paper published in Psychological Science in May, it's not just whether you're black that matters in capital sentencing; it's also how black you look.
For example, jurors who oppose the death penalty will most likely acknowledge they wouldn't impose a capital sentence.
Partially, this is because out of comity and a concern that juries in states without a death penalty are less likely to vote for a capital sentence, federal prosecutors are less likely to seek the death penalty in a state without capital punishment than in a state with capital punishment.
After the capital sentence was affirmed at that level, Richard filed a Petition for Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court, which was eventually granted and the death sentence of the Connecticut Courts was vacated on the Eighth Amendment issue, with the client receiving a life sentence.
Finally, at least one other large firm, Covington and Burling, is busy with a pro bono matter — it's working frantically to spare defendant Larry Smith from a capital sentence, after a jury convicted him and recommended the death penalty in less than 30 minutes, according to this extensive story on Alabama's court - appointed program for criminal indigents seeking appeal.
In one case during his days at the NAACP, he represented one criminal defendant convicted of killing a police officer in a death penalty appeal (resulting in a reduction of the capital sentence to life).
Especially in light of some of the interesting capital sentencing histories of «short - listers» like Alberto Gonzales and Edith Jones, it will be interesting to see if capital sentencing jurisprudence might become a significant part of the public debate after President Bush nominates a replacement for Justice O'Connor.
They challenged the execution by lethal injection on the grounds that it was unconstitutional as a method by which a capital sentence should be carried out.
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