State of West Virginia v. Chester Robert Ulysses Lilly III

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the death penalty is not per se violative of the Eighth Amendment
• holding Florida death penalty statute (which included this aggravator) constitutional on its face
• Furman requires procedures that establish a meaningful basis for distinguishing death cases from non-death cases
• Florida's \especially heinous\ circumstance upheld because state supreme court had already adopted limiting construction
• joint opinion of Stewart, Powell, and STEVENS, JJ.
• upholding constitutionality of Florida’s death penalty statute

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