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- with untrammeled discretion to impose or withhold the death penalty), retains the death penalty for murder and five other crimes. Guilt or innocence is...14 KB (2,039 words) - 10:48, 29 August 2022
- 17, 1972 --- Decided: June 29, 1972 Imposition and carrying out of death penalty in these cases held to constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation...2 KB (147 words) - 13:11, 26 October 2022
- effect to that mitigating evidence in determining whether to impose the death penalty, would not create a "new rule" which, under Teague v. Lane, 489 U.S...15 KB (2,347 words) - 21:12, 25 October 2022
- facial constitutionality of statutes requiring the imposition of the death penalty for first-degree murder, for more narrowly defined categories of murder...8 KB (1,233 words) - 15:42, 22 December 2017
- 277(1)(a) of the Criminal Procedure Act No. 51 of 1977 prescribes that the death penalty is a competent sentence for murder. Counsel for the accused was invited...2 KB (395 words) - 12:33, 21 February 2024
- the death penalty is any longer a permissible form of punishment. 403 U.S. 952 (1971). It is the judgment of five Justices that the death penalty, as...101 KB (15,269 words) - 15:07, 26 August 2021
- the depth of my distaste, antipathy, and, indeed, abhorrence, for the death penalty, with all its aspects of physical distress and fear and of moral judgment...19 KB (3,111 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2021
- recommend, or (2) by imprisonment for any term of years or for life, if the death penalty is not imposed." The District Court dismissed the count of an indictment...3 KB (311 words) - 23:35, 5 May 2024
- least two of my Brothers have concluded that the infliction of the death penalty is constitutionally impermissible in all circumstances under the Eighth...11 KB (1,525 words) - 15:08, 26 August 2021
- Douglas MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, concurring. In these three cases the death penalty was imposed, one of them for murder, and two for rape. In each, the...34 KB (5,586 words) - 15:09, 26 August 2021
- In Furman I concluded that the death penalty is constitutionally invalid for two reasons. First, the death penalty is excessive. Id., at 331-332; 342-359...20 KB (3,038 words) - 13:55, 26 August 2021
- Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 the Parliament of the United Kingdom 3816594Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 19651965the Parliament...863 bytes (942 words) - 13:39, 21 February 2024
- consider the reasons why a civilized society may accept or reject the death penalty for a person less than 16 years old at the time of the crime. Pp. 821–823...12 KB (1,682 words) - 12:44, 21 February 2024
- Supreme Court affirmed, rejecting petitioner's argument that the State's death penalty statute-which requires a sentence of death if a jury unanimously finds...5 KB (670 words) - 12:15, 23 June 2011
- opinion. Justice Stevens concludes as follows: "[T]he imposition of the death penalty represents the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal...14 KB (2,168 words) - 12:50, 2 July 2022
- death. In the laws of Khammurabi, king of Babylon (2285–2242 B.C.), the death penalty is imposed for many offences. The modes for executing it specially named...410 bytes (4,963 words) - 19:19, 11 September 2021
- judgment. In Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972), this Court held the death penalty as then administered in Georgia to be unconstitutional. That same year...39 KB (4,396 words) - 13:56, 26 August 2021
- all circumstances. MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS has also determined that the death penalty contravenes the Eighth Amendment, although I do not read his opinion...61 KB (9,110 words) - 15:07, 26 August 2021
- agent, pancuronium bromide, but also about the justification for the death penalty itself. Because it masks any outward sign of distress, pancuronium bromide...38 KB (5,456 words) - 23:17, 26 August 2021
- the death penalty as retribution for past crimes or as a real deterrent to future crimes, id., at 319–320, the Court ruled that the death penalty constitutes...15 KB (2,213 words) - 13:15, 21 February 2024