Legal Opinion
Jones v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 21, 1999No. 97-9361PublishedCited by 902 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thomas
Petitioner was sentenced to death for committing a kid-naping resulting in death to the victim. His sentence was imposed under the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994, 18 U. S. C. § 3591 et seq. (1994 ed. and Supp. III). We are presented with three questions: whether petitioner was entitled to an instruction as to the effect of jury deadlock; whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury was led to believe that petitioner would receive a court-imposed sentence *376less than life imprisonment in the event that they could not reach a unanimous sentence recommendation; and whether the…
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