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A victim impact statement is a written or oral statement made as part of the judicial legal process, which allows crime victims the opportunity to speak during the sentencing of the convicted person or at subsequent parole hearings.
Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case authored by Chief Justice William Rehnquist which held that testimony in the form of a victim impact statement is admissible during the sentencing phase of a trial and, in death penalty cases, does not violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment. [1]
Moments later, they delivered heartfelt victim impact statements. Caitlin Cash was the first to address the court and recounted how she found Wilson’s dead body lying in a pool of blood in her ...
Viktoria Hazegh-Aazam reads on Monday her victim impact statement about her mother Vita Joga to Johnnie Jordan IV, who last month pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in Joga’s death.
In the statement, she described her father’s actions as “cold, callous and calculated” and noted he’d killed “a son, a father, a brother, a loving partner and a good friend to many ...
Prior to Williams's sentencing, the judge allowed the court to hear victim impact statements. Holland's father, who stated that Williams did not deserve to live, read out a letter from his elder daughter (Holland's sister), in which Holland's sister stated that her late younger sister was "sweet and caring".
Victim impact statements were read out by prosecutor Deanna Heer KC, in which the grieving families of two of the murder victims branded their daughters’ killer as “pure evil” whose actions ...
During the sentencing phase, Betty Baquer, the 59-year-old mother of Farah, was allowed to make a victim impact statement, and she labelled her former son-in-law as a "monster" for having caused her daughter's death and the case's aftereffects in their lives. [29] On April 24, 1996, the jury unanimously meted out the death penalty for Fratta.