Posted on 06/25/2002 11:17:06 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:54:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Monday's Supreme Court decision in Ring vs. Arizona clears away a lot of the philosophical underbrush that has confused state legislators and the courts for many years. In this 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court revived the English common law doctrine that only a jury can decide the facts on which a death penalty can be based.
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