Blystone v. Pennsylvania

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1990-02-28

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*301 Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court. A Pennsylvania jury sentenced petitioner Scott Wayne Blystone to death after finding him guilty of robbing and murdering a hitchhiker who was unlucky enough to have accepted a ride in his car. Petitioner challenges his sentence on the ground that the State’s death penalty statute is unconsti…

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