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Ayers v. Belmontes, No. 05-493 (U.S. Supreme Court) (549 U.S. 7; 127 S.Ct. 469) (November 13, 2006) (Justice Kennedy)

Loaded on Oct. 1, 2006 published in Punch and Jurists October 16, 2006
Filed under: Jury Instructions, Punch And Jurists.

For all practical purposes, this lengthy decision represents little more than a philosophical debate about capital punishment between the conservative and liberal factions on the Supreme Court. Certainly, it adds little meaningful guidance to the Court’s death penalty jurisprudence, in part because the narrow holding in this case will probably ...

 

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