Michael J. Durkee v. Everett Frazier, Commissioner, West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles

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• holding that the State’s mandatory death penalty statute violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
• holding that the State's mandatory death penalty statute violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments
• recognizing that the “penalty of death is qualitatively different from a sentence of imprisonment, however long”
• holding that Eighth Amendment requires “the particularized consideration of relevant aspects of the character and record of each convicted defendant before the imposition upon him of a sentence of death”
• holding that Eighth Amendment requires \the particularized consideration of relevant aspects of the character and record of each convicted defendant before the imposition upon him of a sentence of death\
• holding that a statute that mandates a death sentence violates the Eighth Amendment

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