*67 Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents the question whether a statute that mandates the death penalty for a prison inmate who is convicted of murder while serving a life sentence without possibility of parole comports with the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. I In 1958, respondent…
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