Legal Opinion
Zant v. Stephens
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 22, 1983No. 81-89PublishedCited by 2,282 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
The question presented is whether respondent’s death penalty must be vacated because one of the three statutory aggravating circumstances found by the jury was subsequently held to be invalid by the Supreme Court of Georgia, although the other two aggravating circumstances were specifically upheld. The answer depends on the function of the jury’s finding of an aggravating circumstance under Georgia’s capital sentencing statute, and on the reasons that the aggravating circumstance at issue in this particular case was found to be invalid.
In January 1975 a jury in Bleckley County, Georgia,…
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