Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Souter, Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Breyer join, dissenting. A capital sentencing procedure that required the jury to return a death sentence if even a single juror supported that outcome would be the “ ‘ “height of. arbitrariness.” ’ ” Ante, at 419. The use of such a procedure is unquestionably unconstitutional today, and I believe it was equally so in 1987 when re…
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