Mitigating - Judgment Search Results

Mills Vs. Rogers

Court: US Supreme Court

mills v rogers 457 u s 291 1982 u s supreme court mills v rogers 457 u s 291 1982...

inwood Laboratories Vs. Ives Laboratories

Court: US Supreme Court

inwood laboratories v ives laboratories 456 u s 844 1982 u s supreme court inwood laboratories v ives laboratories 456...

Smt. Jamna Devi and ors. Vs. Kude Ram and anr.

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1982SC1456; 1982(1)SCALE815; (1982)3SCC376; 1982(14)LC850(SC)

..... death works well and it produces results gene rally regarded as satisfactory it helps in mitigating the rigour of the death sentence particularly in case of those murderers whose execution would .....

Eddings Vs. Oklahoma

Court: US Supreme Court

..... reflecting anything more than a conclusion that eddings background was not a sufficiently mitigating factor to tip the scales given the aggravating circumstances including eddings statements ..... petitioner asserted that the oklahoma sentencing scheme was constitutionally deficient because t he mitigating circumstances which may be considered are not statutorily defined or limited emphasis added .....

Enmund Vs. Florida

Court: US Supreme Court

..... for an unintended felony murder if sufficient aggravating circumstances are present to outweigh mitigating circumstances which often include the defendant s minimal participation in the murder only ..... consideration in fixing the ultimate punishment of death the possibility of compassionate or mitigating factors stemming from the diverse frailties of humankind it treats all persons convicted .....

Smith Vs. North Carolina

Court: US Supreme Court

..... imposed whenever the page 459 u s 1056 1057 aggravating circumstances discounted by whatever mitigating factors exist are sufficiently serious to warrant the extreme penalty literally read however ..... make two entirely separate inquiries first do the aggravating circumstances considered apart from the mitigating circumstances warrant the imposition of the death penalty and second do the aggravating .....

Quince Vs. Florida

Court: US Supreme Court

..... after conducting a sentencing hearing the judge found three aggravating circumstances and one mitigating circumstance the judge found as aggravating circumstances that the murder was heinous that ..... supreme court declined to make an independent evaluation of the evidence concerning aggravating and mitigating circumstances the court explained that its statutory duty to review death sentences does .....

Zant Vs. Stephens

Court: US Supreme Court

..... imposed after reaching this threshold determination the jury may consider any evidence in aggravation or mitigation in reaching its conclusion as to whether the death penalty should be imposed according ..... existence of statutory aggravating circumstances and weigh them against each other and against any mitigating circumstances when deciding whether or not to impose the death penalty cf godfrey v .....

Bachan Singh, Sher Singh and anr. and Ujagar Singh and anr. Vs. State ...

Court: Supreme Court of India

Reported in: AIR1982SC1325

..... process these guided discretion statutes provided standards typically in the form of specific aggravating and mitigating circumstances that must be taken into account before death sentence can be handed down ..... the indian penal code nor any other provision of law sets out any aggravating or mitigating circumstance or any other considerations which must be taken into account in determining whether .....

United States Vs. Frady

Court: US Supreme Court

..... frady has never presented colorable evidence even from his own testimony indicating such justification mitigation or excuse that would reduce his crime from murder to manslaughter indeed the ..... not have found passion and provocation especially since frady presented no evidence whatever of mitigating circumstances but instead defended by disclaiming any involvement with the killing footnote 19 surely .....