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· 12/2/2002

Salgedo Roman v. Peterson

Citations

  • 537 U.S. 1059
  • 123 S. Ct. 637

How courts have described this case

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  • “The prosecutors made it a theme of their summation that the jury’s failure to sentence Bates to death would be akin to ordering the execution of Bates’s next victim. Voting for a life sentence for this ‘rabid dog’ was equivalent to putting a gun in his hand.”

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