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- While that court vacated his death sentence, the case was appealed to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals which found that the federal court did not have the authority to vacate Pye's sentence even if they believed that the state courts were "clearly wrong."
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Feb 25, 2019 · Responding to the Georgia state and federal courts’ refusal to reverse a death sentence imposed on an African-American defendant by a jury tainted by racism, an ideologically diverse range of voices have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.
The judgment of the Georgia Supreme Court upholding the death sentence is reversed, and the case is remanded to that court for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion. So ordered. The section defines rape as having "carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will.
May 10, 2021 · A federal appeals court has reversed the death sentence of an African-American Georgia death-row prisoner who was represented at trial by a defense lawyer notorious for his history of substandard representation and racial bias in death-penalty cases.
In 1983 this Court again upheld the Georgia and Florida sentencing schemes, in part because of proportionality review. See Zant v. Stephens, 462 U.S. 862 (1983); Barclay v. Florida, 463 U.S. 939 (1983). In Zant, the Court upheld a death sentence although the jury had been instructed to consider an aggravating circumstance the
After unsuccessfully seeking postconviction relief in state courts, petitioner sought habeas corpus relief in Federal District Court. His petition included a claim that the Georgia capital sentencing process was administered in a racially discriminatory manner in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment s.
Although the Georgia Supreme Court set aside one of the aggravating circumstances found by the jury, it upheld the death sentence, concluding that the evidence supported the jury's findings of the other aggravating circumstances, and that therefore the sentence was not impaired.
In Gregg v. Georgia (1976), one of the Death Penalty Cases of 1976, the Supreme Court approved Georgia’s redrawn death penalty statute. The seven-member majority ruled that Georgia’s death penalty statute did not violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
