Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Lowenfield v. Phelps, 484 U.S. 231 (1988) is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the two jury polls and the supplemental charge did not impermissibly coerce the jury to return a death sentence, and that the death sentence does not violate the Eighth Amendment simply because the single statutory \"aggravating circumstance\" found by the jury duplicates an element of the underlying offense of first-degree murder.Though it is not clear why and unreported in the text, Justice Kennedy did not take part in the decision and there is no mention of his name in the official reports."@en }
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- Lowenfield_v._Phelps abstract "Lowenfield v. Phelps, 484 U.S. 231 (1988) is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the two jury polls and the supplemental charge did not impermissibly coerce the jury to return a death sentence, and that the death sentence does not violate the Eighth Amendment simply because the single statutory \"aggravating circumstance\" found by the jury duplicates an element of the underlying offense of first-degree murder.Though it is not clear why and unreported in the text, Justice Kennedy did not take part in the decision and there is no mention of his name in the official reports.".