McGautha v. California
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mcgautha-v-california-273-9014799
title:
McGautha v. California
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McGautha v. California, 402 U.S. 183 (1971), is a criminal case heard by the United States Supreme Court, in which the Court held that the lack of legal standards by which juries imposed the death penalty was not an unconstitutional violation of the due process clause portions of the Fourteenth Amendment. Justice Harlan wrote that writing rules for jury death penalty decisions was beyond current human ability. The context was public and philosophical scrutiny of the unequal application of the de
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1971 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGautha_v._California
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2023-12-06T06:46:57Z
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