CHIEF Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court. This case calls on us to decide whether the Eighth Amendment requires that a capital jury be instructed on the concept of mitigating evidence generally, or on particular statutory mitigating factors. We hold it does not. *271 On the afternoon of September 15, 1987, Douglas Buc…
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