 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Capital punishment - 1981 - 744 pages
...allowing them to focus on announced standards, such as the aggravating factors specified in S. 114. As the Supreme Court has noted: "It Is of vital Importance...the community that any decision to Impose the death sentence be, and appear to be, based 'on reason rather than caprice or emotion." Gardner v. Florida.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1990 - 1088 pages
...light of the complete finality of the death sentence," Turner v. Murray, 476 US 28, 35 (1986), and that "[i]t is of vital importance to the defendant and...the community that any decision to impose the death sentence be, and appear to be, based on reason rather than caprice or emotion," Gardner v. Florida,... | |
 | the late Bernard Schwartz - Law - 1996 - 501 pages
...taking the life of one of its citizens also differs dramatically from any other legitimate state action. It is of vital importance to the defendant and to...the community that any decision to impose the death sentence be, and appear to be, based on reason rather than caprice or emotion." Gardner v. TOMPKINS... | |
 | Barry Latzer - Law - 2002 - 366 pages
...crimes. These factors certainly did not remove the criminality from the petitioner's acts. But, ... it "is of vital importance to the defendant and to...the community that any decision to impose the death sentence be, and appear to be, based on reason rather than caprice or emotion." That cannot be said... | |
 | Donald P. Kommers, John E. Finn, Gary J. Jacobsohn - History - 2004 - 794 pages
...proceeding is especially serious in light of the complete finality of the death sentence," and that "it is of vital importance to the defendant and to...the community that any decision to impose the death sentence be, and appear to be, based on reason rather than caprice or emotion." . . . Surely, we should... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1982 - 1002 pages
...the criminality from the petitioner's acts. But, as was said in Gardner v. Florida, 430 US 349, 358, it "is of vital importance to the defendant and to...the community that any decision to impose the death sentence be, and appear to be, based on reason rather than caprice or emotion." That cannot be said... | |
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is of vital importance to the defendant and to the community that any decision to impose the death sentence be, and appear to be, based on reason rather than caprice or emotion. 
