Justice White announced the judgment of the Court, and delivered an opinion, in which The Chief Justice, Justice Scalia, and Justice Kennedy join. In this case, we are called on to determine if the Eighth Amendment required a Texas trial court to give certain jury instructions, relating to the consideration of mitigating evidence, that petitioner had requested in the sentencing phase of his capital trial. <…
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