Penry v. Lynaugh

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1989-06-26

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*341 Justice Brennan, with whom Justice Marshall joins, concurring in part and dissenting in part. I agree that the jury instructions given at sentencing in this case deprived petitioner of his constitutional right to have a jury consider all mitigating evidence that he presented before sentencing him to die. I would also…

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