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Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984) — A state appellate court, before it affirms a death sentence, is not required to compare the sentence in the case before it with the penalties imposed in similar cases if requested to do so by the prisoner. Whitmore v. Arkansas, 495 U.S. 149 (1990) — Mandatory appellate review is not required in death penalty cases.
Idaho is one of the 27 U.S. states with the death penalty, though six of them — Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee — are under governor holds on executions ...
Lankford v. Idaho, 500 U.S. 110 (1991), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the petitioner, Bryan Lankford, had been unconstitutionally sentenced to death in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
There were no executions from 1958 to 1972, when the United States Supreme Court decision Furman v. Georgia struck down all death penalty statutes across the United States and created an effective moratorium on executions. [7] Idaho passed new statutes on July 7, 1973, and the 1976 case Gregg v. Georgia lifted the moratorium. [8]
The U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 ruled that the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits death sentences for the rape of a child under 12 years old when the victim survived.
Anderson said the recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent regarding ineffective legal counsel did not comport with prior state law adopted by the Idaho Legislature. The Idaho Supreme Court’s rulings ...
Creech also was sentenced to death for the November 1974 murders of two men in Valley County, but later resentenced to life in prison after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states could not make ...
On March 17, 2010, the Idaho Supreme Court rejected a joint appeal filed by Pizzuto and five other condemned inmates from Idaho, who all argued that they were entitled to new trials because the U.S. Supreme Court made a ruling to allow only the jury, not judges, to impose the death penalty. The Idaho Supreme Court ruled that the ruling was made ...