Legal Opinion
Buchanan v. Angelone
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 21, 1998No. 96-8400PublishedCited by 340 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
This case calls on us to decide whether the Eighth Amendment requires that a capital jury be instructed on the concept of mitigating evidence generally, or on particular statutory mitigating factors. We hold it does not.
*271On the afternoon of September 15, 1987, Douglas Buchanan murdered his father, stepmother, and two younger brothers. Buchanan was convicted of the capital murder of more than one person as part of the same act or transaction by a jury in the Circuit Court of Amherst County, Virginia. See Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-31(7) (1996). A separate sentencing hearing was held, in which the…
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3Cited by340 opinions
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