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BaldwIn Vs. Alabama

Court: US Supreme Court

..... verdict the sentencing judge would have to determine that death was an inappropriate punishment not because mitigating circumstances outweighed aggravating circumstances but because the defendant had not ..... arbitrariness and uncertainty of the message conveyed by a mandatory jury death sentence makes such a sentence a constitutionally impermissible factor in a sentencing judge s deliberations rather .....

Caldwell Vs. Mississippi

Court: US Supreme Court

..... eighth amendment while recognizing that the qualitative difference of death from all other punishments requires a correspondingly greater degree of scrutiny of the capital sentencing determination california ..... requires procedures that will ensure a reliable determination that death is an appropriate punishment although the eighth amendment requires certain processes designed to prevent the arbitrary .....

Wainwright Vs. Witt

Court: US Supreme Court

..... in arkansas and alabama respectively apparently allowed juries unlimited discretion in imposing the death sentence in addition both cases involved jurors who were excused merely because they had ..... qualification the exclusion for cause in capital cases of jurors opposed to capital punishment can dangerously erode this inestimable safeguard by creating unrepresentative juries uncommonly willing to .....

Heath Vs. Alabama

Court: US Supreme Court

..... former jeopardy under the alabama and united states constitutions arguing that his conviction and sentence in georgia barred his prosecution in alabama for the same conduct petitioner also entered ..... have been kidnaped from alabama before she was murdered and that petitioner was already being punished for ordering that murder petitioner was convicted and after sentencing hearings was condemned to .....

Garrett Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... protection against a second prosecution for the washington importation conviction and protection against multiple punishments for that conviction garrett focuses primarily on the former protection which we address ..... and we can assume it was aware that doing so would authorize cumulative punishments absent some indication of contrary intent moreover disallowing cumulative sentences would have the .....

Ball Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... be squared with congress intention one of the convictions as well as its concurrent sentence is unauthorized punishment for a separate offense see missouri v hunter 459 u s 359 459 u ..... imprisonment on the receipt count and two years imprisonment on the possession count the latter sentence suspended with two years probation on appeal ball challenged the validity of the consecutive sentences .....

Glass Vs. Louisiana

Court: US Supreme Court

..... in that method of execution and the method violates the cruel and unusual punishments clause ii because contemporary courts have summarily rejected constitutional challenges to electrocution the ..... a person were unconstitutional not whether electrocution was per se cruel and unusual punishment the plurality obviously believed that electrocution in the abstract was not constitutionally forbidden .....

Som Bahadur Gurung and anr. Vs. State of Gujarat and ors.

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: (1986)2GLR1352

execution of sentence of fine there are restrictions on corporal punishment ch xiv sections 179 to 190 seal with pardons remissions

G.P. Singh and ors. Vs. Shanti Ranjan Sarkar

Court: Kolkata

Reported in: 1985CriLJ1695

..... may award in addition to or without any one other punishment the punishment specified in clause c of sub section 1 of section ..... had no jurisdiction to impose on the respondent the further punishment of dismissal from service 7 in this connection we may ..... the security force court can combine any punishment with the punishment of dismissal and any other lesser punishment we are unable to subscribe to .....

Angadi Chennaiah (A.1) and ors. Vs. State of A.P.

Court: Andhra Pradesh

Reported in: 1985CriLJ1366

..... parts is itself an offence the offender shall not be punished with the punishment of more than one of such offences unless it be ..... other hand the lower appellate court has wrongly reduced the sentence and the sentence of four months r i and a fine of rs ..... when combined different offence the offender shall not be punished with a more severe punishment than the court which tries him could award for .....