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446 U.S. 420 (1980) Eighth Amendment overbreadth of an aggravating circumstance required for imposing the death penalty United States V. Mendenhall: 446 U.S. 544 (1980) Police may obtain consent to detain a person and search them under the Fourth Amendment: Walker v. Armco Steel Corp. 446 U.S. 740 (1980)
Tison v. Arizona, 481 U.S. 137 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court qualified the rule it set forth in Enmund v. Florida (1982). Just as in Enmund, in Tison the Court applied the proportionality principle to conclude that the death penalty was an appropriate punishment for a felony murderer who was a major participant in the underlying felony and exhibited a ...
(Still another girl had escaped at the time.) On November 11, 2009, after deliberating about 10 hours over two days, a DuPage County jury sentenced Brian Dugan to death for the rape and murder of Jeanine Nicarico 26 years earlier. Dugan's sentence was commuted to life in prison after Illinois passed a law in 2011 abolishing the death penalty.
A Provisional Irish Republican Army member was sentenced to death for murder before abolition was extended across the UK. European Union human-rights protocols signed in 1999 abolished the death penalty in EU nations, but the UK is no longer an EU member. [18] 1998 Mahmood Hussein Mattan, convicted and hanged 1952, conviction quashed 1998. [19]
The following are the five states with the most executions since the early 1980s, according to the Death Penalty Information Center: Texas, 591. Oklahoma, 126. Virginia, 113. Florida, 106 ...
Roberts v. Louisiana, 428 U.S. 325 (1976) Louisiana's new death penalty statute is unconstitutional because it calls for a mandatory death sentence for a large range of crimes. Coker v. Georgia, 433 U.S. 584 (1977) A death sentence may not be imposed for the crime of rape. Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982) A death sentence may not be ...
The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn widespread scrutiny was halted by the Texas Supreme Court late Thursday night as doubts linger over whether his decades-old ...
But in hindsight, a 1980 advertisement in the Journal Star proved eerily prophetic. The ad promised diners "a new adventure in eating." None could have known that "adventure" would include blurred ...