| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1988 - 970 pages
...committed. These factors are properly part of the sentencing process. "[T]he sentencing process must permit consideration of the 'character and record of the...the process of inflicting the penalty of death.'" *See White v. Maryland, 470 US 1062 (1985) (dissenting from denial of certiorari); Maxwell v. Pennsylvania,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1976 - 1072 pages
...humanity underlying the Eighth Amendment, see Trnr> v. Dtillfs, 356 US, at 100 (plurality opinion), requires consideration of the character and record...of the process of inflicting the penalty of death. For the reasons stated, we conclude that the death sentences imposed upon the petitioners under North... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1980 - 862 pages
...invalidating North Carolina's mandatory death penalty statute, that the sentencing process must permit consideration of the "character and record of the...of the process of inflicting the penalty of death," Woodson v. North Carolina, 428 US, at 304, in order to ensure the reliability, under Eighth Amendment... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Capital punishment - 1981 - 830 pages
...for humanity underlying the Eighth Amendment, see Trop v. Dulles. 356 US at 100 (plurality opinion), requires consideration of the character and record...of the process of Inflicting the penalty of death. "This conclusion rests squarely on the predicate that the penalty of death Is qualitatively different... | |
| Bruce L. Danto, John Bruhns, Austin H. Kutscher - Philosophy - 1982 - 362 pages
...that they omitted, "the fundamental respect for humanity underlying the 8th Amendment. . . . which requires consideration of the character and record...of the process of inflicting the penalty of death" (Woodson v. North Carolina 1976:2991). In Gregg, they explained: In summary the concerns expressed... | |
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