Tison v. Arizona

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1987-04-21

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Justice O’Connor delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented is whether the petitioners’ participation in the events leading up to and following the murder of four members of a family makes the sentences of death imposed by the Arizona courts constitutionally permissible although neither petitioner specifically intended to kill the victims and neither inflicted the fatal gunshot wounds. We hold that…

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