Lynch v. Arizona

*1818 PER CURIAM.

Under Simmons v. South Carolina, 512 U.S. 154 , 114 S.Ct. 2187 , 129 L.Ed.2d 133 (1994), and its progeny, "where a capital defendant's future dangerousness is at issue, and the only sentencing alternative to death available to the jury is life imprisonment without possibility of parole," the Due Process Clause "entitles the defendant 'to inform the jury of [his] parole ineligibility, either by a jury instruction or in arguments by counsel.' " Shafer v. South Carolina, 532 U.S. 36 , 39, 121 S.Ct. 1263 , 149 L.Ed.2d 178 (2001) (quoting Ramdass v. Angelone, 530 U.S. 156 , 165, 120…