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Article: Court upholds 'double jeopardy' death sentence; Supreme Court rules that a life-sentence prisoner can be put to death after a retrial jury calls for death penalty.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 15, 2003
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Byline: Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON -- The US Supreme Court has made it easier to impose the death penalty in cases where a jury deadlocks in an initial trial, and a second jury later imposes capital punishment.
In a 5-to-4 decision announced Tuesday, the nation's highest court upheld a death sentence for a Pennsylvania death-row inmate who had argued that he should not have faced the death penalty in his second trial because a judge had sentenced him to life in prison following his first trial.
At issue was whether the defendant's death sentence was barred by the constitutional prohibition against ...