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Death, Juries and Scalia
Cockburn, Alexander | July 15, 2002 issue

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The article examines criticisms by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia against some judges' practice of going against the verdict of the jury by imposing the death penalty. In his concurring opinion in the case Ring versus Arizona, where the Supreme Court struck down an Arizona statute that allowed judges rather than juries to impose the death penalty, Scalia criticized Justice Stephen Breyer for inconsistency in upholding the right of judges to overrule the jury in hate crime cases. Scalia supports the idea that only those prepared to vote for the death penalty should be allowed on a jury.

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SCALIA, Antonin; CAPITAL punishment; JUDGES -- United States; JURY; UNITED States. Supreme Court; BREYER, Stephen G., 1938-; UNITED States
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