Legal Opinion
Payne v. Tennessee
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided September 13, 1991No. 90-5721PublishedCited by 2,981 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
In this case we reconsider our holdings in Booth v. Maryland, 482 U. S. 496 (1987), and South Carolina v. Gathers, 490 U. S. 805 (1989), that the Eighth Amendment bars the admission of victim impact evidence during the penalty phase of a capital trial.
Petitioner, Pervis Tyrone Payne, was convicted by a jury on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree. He was sentenced to death for each of the murders and to 30 years in prison for the assault.
The victims of Payne’s offenses were 28-year-old Charisse Christopher, her 2-year-old…
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