McGautha v. California
Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox SCOTUS case McGautha v. California, 402 U.S. 183 (1971), is a criminal case heard by the United States Supreme Court, in which the Court held that the lack of legal standards by which juries imposed the death penalty was not an unconstitutional violation of the due process clause portions of the Fourteenth Amendment.[1]Template:Rp[2] Justice Harlan wrote that writing rules for jury death penalty decisions was beyond current human ability.[1]Template:Rp The context was public and philosophical scrutiny of the unequal application of the death penalty, especially in that blacks who killed whites were much more likely to have a death penalty imposed.[1]Template:Rp McGautha was superseded one year later by Furman v. Georgia.
References
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- ↑ a b c Criminal Law - Cases and Materials, 7th ed. 2012, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business; John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, Template:ISBN, [1]
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External links
- Text of McGautha v. California, 402 U.S. 183 (1971) is available from: Justia Library of Congress Oyez (oral argument audio)