Justice Stevens, dissenting. Neither the race of the defendant nor the race of the victim should play a part in any decision to impose a death sentence. As Justice Thomas points out, there is reason to believe that this imperative was routinely violated in the *501 years before the Court first held that capital punishment may violate the Eighth Amendment,…
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