Payne v. Tennessee
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payne-v-tennessee-162-18986377
title:
Payne v. Tennessee
text:
Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case authored by Chief Justice William Rehnquist which held that testimony in the form of a victim impact statement is admissible during the sentencing phase of a trial and, in death penalty cases, does not violate the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause of the Eighth Amendment. Payne overturned two of the Courts' precedents: Booth v. Maryland (1987) and South Carolina v. Gathers (1989).
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1991 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payne_v._Tennessee
date created:
2008-09-22T20:52:07Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T02:54:57Z
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