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Social Issues

 

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Christopher B

 

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December 14, 2012

 

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The Ninth Circuit Court applied rules for weighing states rather than for non-weighting states. The weighing states apply rules stated in Stringer v. Black as," The principal - and critical - difference between the two schemes is that Mississippi, unlike Georgia, is a "weighing" State, in which a jury that has found a defendant guilty of capital murder and found at least one statutory aggravating factor must weigh such factors against the mitigating evidence...
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Zant v. Stephens, 462 U.S. 862, 890 , expressly left open the possibility that, in a weighing State, infection of the process with an invalid aggravating factor might require invalidation of the death sentence."2 The decision was therefore reversed by finding that Sanders had been unconstitutionally deprived of an individualized death sentence...
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