Legal Opinion
Lowenfield v. Phelps
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 7, 1988No. 86-6867PublishedCited by 1,259 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
delivered the opinion of the Court. †
Petitioner, sentenced to death by the Louisiana state courts, makes two federal constitutional attacks on his sentence. He first contends that the trial court impermissibly coerced the jury to return a sentence of death by inquiries it made to the jury and a supplemental charge which it gave to the jury following the receipt of a communication from that body. Petitioner’s second contention is that the death sentence violates the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution because the single “aggravating circumstance” found by the jury and upheld by…
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