Walton v. Arizona, No. 88-7351 (U.S. Supreme Court) (497 U.S. 639; 110 S.Ct. 3047) (June 27, 1990) (Justice White)
In this case, the Court was faced with a challenge to the "proportionality review" of a capital sentence - i.e., a comparison of the sentence imposed in the instant case with the penalties imposed in similar cases. [See Pulley v. Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984) for more on "proportionality reviews" ...
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