People v. St. Pierre

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a sentence generally does not violate the constitutional requirement of proportionality “if it is commensurate with the seriousness of the crime and gives adequate consideration to the rehabilitative potential of the defendant”
• statute sufficiently minimizes the risk against the arbitrary and capricious imposition of the death penalty
• statute sufficiently minimizes the risk against the arbitrary and capricious imposition of the death penalty
• death sentence upheld because the culpability of the defendant who delivered the fatal blows was \measurably greater\ than that of the individuals who conceived the plan to murder
• statute sufficiently minimizes the risk against the arbitrary and capricious imposition of the death penalty
• death sentence upheld because the culpability of the defendant who delivered the fatal blows was “measurably greater” than that of the individuals who conceived the plan to murder

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