Hitchcock v. Dugger

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it was error for the trial court to refuse to consider nonstatutory mitigating circumstances that were presented
• holding that jurors had to be permitted to consider even nonstatutory mitigating evidence
• holding that failure to consider nonstatutory mitigating circumstances was reversible error because a sentencer cannot be precluded from considering relevant mitigating evidence
• holding that trial court must consider both statutory and nonstatutory mitigating factors
• holding that defendants have a constitutional right to the consideration of nonstatutory mitigating factors
• holding it unconstitutional to restrict jury's consideration of mitigating factors to those enumerated in the statute

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