Legal Opinion
Baldwin v. Alabama
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 17, 1985No. 84-5743PublishedCited by 138 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
Between 1976 and 1981, an Alabama statute required a jury that convicted a defendant of any one of a number of specified crimes “with aggravation” to “fix the punishment at death.” Ala. Code § 13-ll-2(a) (1975).1 The “sentence” *374imposed by the jury, however, was not dispositive. Instead, “[notwithstanding the fixing of the punishment at death by the jury,” §13-11-4, the trial judge then was to hear evidence of aggravating and mitigating circumstances and, after weighing those circumstances, to sentence the defendant to death or to life imprisonment without parole.
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2Cases cited28 opinions
- Gregg v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Lockett v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Eddings v. OklahomaSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
- Woodson v. North CarolinaSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
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3Cited by138 opinions
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- Eugene Williams Gall, Jr. v. Phil Parker, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2000
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