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- Baldwin v. Alabama, 472 U.S. 372 (1985)
... independently considering petitioner's background and character and the circumstances of his crime. ... her there while they drove through Georgia and Alabama. Twice, when they heard the young woma... death penalty that troubled the Court in Furman. 428 U.S., at 302-303. The Alabama scheme, however...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- The mass production of credentials: subsidies and the rise of the higher education industry.
... students from different social backgrounds and distant parts of the country. At the same time...in Furman 1958). The $900 million four-year bill provided lo... and Social Capital: The Case of Dalton, Georgia. Southern Rural Sociology 19: 20-45. . --. 2005. A...
- Independent Review
- Vol. 15 Nbr. 3, January 2011
- The Impact of Information Overload On the Capital Jury's Ability to Assess Aggravating and Mitigating Factors
Since 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court has required that death penalty regimes meet two requirements. First, in order to minimize arbitrariness in the imposition of the death penalty, states must reserve capital punishment to a narrow class of offenders, those most deserving of death. States have done so by requiring that the prosecution prove at least one aggravating factor, i.e., some circumstance that separates the capital defendant on trial from those ineligible to be executed. Second, states must allow for individualization in sentencing by permitting the defendant to introduce mitigating evidence in order to persuade the jury that he is undeserving of death. The outcome has been that the penalty phase of the typical capital trial results in a flood of information from both prosecution...

... decision"5 in death penalty jurisprudence, Furman v. Georgia.6 Furman indicated that, although capit... history, whether the defendant had a background of extreme poverty, defendant's remorse, and wheth...
- The William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal
- Vol. 17 Nbr. 4, May 2009

- Nelson vs. Quarterman, (5th Cir. 2006)
...FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND On December 11, 1991, a Texas jury found Nels...Texas and the Immediate Post-Furman Cases In Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (19...
- Federal Circuits
- Gregory Esparza, Petitioner-Appellee/Cross-Appellant, v. Betty Mitchell, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/Cross-Appellee., 310 F.3d 414 (6th Cir. 2002)
... the line of Supreme Court cases following Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S.Ct. 2726, 33 L.Ed.2... circumstances of the defendant, his background, and his crime. See, e.g., Spaziano v. Florida, [4...
- Federal Circuits
- Alan Lyndell Wade, Appellant, vs. State of Florida, Appellee, (2010)
...I. BACKGROUND. In August 2005, Alan Wade, Michael Jackson, Tiffa... located just across the state line in Georgia. Leaving the car parked on the road, the foursome... imposition of the death penalty under Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (1972); (E) the trial cou...
- Florida Supreme Court
- Constitutional reform and the abolition of the mandatory death penalty in Kenya.
... after the Supreme Court struck down Georgia's death penalty in 1972. (23) Once the Supreme Cou..., such a scheme actually exacerbates the Furman problem of unfettered discretion. (28) In essence,... Constitution of Kenya: Historical Background and Analysis, 14 INT'L & COMP. L.Q. 878, 897-98 (1...
- Suffolk University Law Review
- Vol. 45 Nbr. 2, March 2012
- Nelson vs. Dretke, (5th Cir. 2006)
... claim.2 BACKGROUND Nelson was indicted for the capital mur... and history of its post-Furman death penalty jurisprudence. For example, t... Ohio, 438 U.S. 637 (1978); Green v. Georgia, 442 U.S. 95 (1979); Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U.S....
- Federal Circuits
- Sen. Patrick J. Leahy Holds a Hearing On the Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to Be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
... pertaining to you and to your background as a judge. You're going to be the first Supreme ... See Furman vs. Georgia and despite the effort of the States a...
- Political Transcript Wire
- October 08, 2009
- Dewey E. Coleman, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Henry Risley, Warden, Montana State Prison, and Michael T. Greely, Attorney General for the State of Montana, Respondents-Appellees., 839 F.2d 434 (9th Cir. 1988)
... of evidence of defendant's background and history and of any facts in aggravation or mit...Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976... the constitutional concerns expressed in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238, 92 S.Ct. 2726, 33 L.Ed.2...
- Federal Circuits