Legal Opinion
Tison v. Arizona
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 21, 1987No. 84-6075PublishedCited by 1,311 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
The question presented is whether the petitioners’ participation in the events leading up to and following the murder of four members of a family makes the sentences of death imposed by the Arizona courts constitutionally permissible although neither petitioner specifically intended to kill the victims and neither inflicted the fatal gunshot wounds. We hold that the Arizona Supreme Court applied an erroneous standard in making the findings required by Enmund v. Florida, 458 U. S. 782 (1982), and, therefore, vacate the judgments below and remand the case for further proceedings not…
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