Justice Marshall, with whom Justice Brennan joins, dissenting. Petitioner was sentenced to death after a hearing in which the judge prevented the jury from considering evidence that it might well have considered highly relevant to petitioner’s motive at the time of his crime and to the relationship of his character and record to the offense he had committed. As a result, the jury wa…
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