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- Categoria: Death Penalty News
- Pubblicato: 03 Marzo 2020
18 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Ring v. Arizona opinion held that a judge cannot unilaterally call for the death penalty; the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial requires that jurors first determine the ultimate punishment is warranted. But because the justices later clarified that Ring did not retroactively apply to sentences already reviewed and affirmed