Petition Preview: Enya, the Death Penalty, and Video Victim Impact Evidence - Read More |
| Date Added: August 30, 2008 05:24:03 PM |
| Nearly two decades ago, in Payne v. Tennessee (1991), the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment did not bar the introduction of “victim impact evidence” at the penalty phase of capital trials. The Court held that just as the Constitution gave defendants the right to present evidence designed to avoid imposition of the death [...] |
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