Supreme Court· 12/1/1992

Richmond v. Lewis

Citations

506 U.S. 40
113 S. Ct. 528
121 L. Ed. 2d 411
1992 U.S. LEXIS 7662

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holding that Arizona’s narrowing construction of its “especially heinous, cruel or depraved” factor to include “needless mutilation of the victim” after death is constitutionally adequate
holding that Arizona is a weighing state despite, the absence of the term
holding that Arizona’s narrowing con- struction of its “especially heinous, cruel or depraved” factor to include “needless mutilation of the victim” after death is constitutionally adequate
holding that a state appellate court can cure a sen- tencing error in a capital case when “the state appellate court . . . actually perform[s] a new sentencing calculus”
indicating that “gratuitous violence” factor of a state’s “heinous and depraved” aggravating circumstance could constitutionally be applied to defendant who ran over victim twice with car, regardless of whether he knew the victim died after the first pass
noting Arizona’s practice of accepting evidence of the effect of the execution upon defendant’s family in mitigation of death

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Judges: O'Connor, Rehnquist, White, Blackmun, Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Thomas, Scalia

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