Entries by Melanie Kalmanson

Today is the ten-year anniver­sary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s deci­sion in Hurst v. Florida. Heralded as a water­shed rul­ing for cap­i­tal defen­dants, Hurst reaf­firmed the prin­ci­ple that the jury alone must find the facts nec­es­sary to con­demn a per­son to die — impli­cat­ing the death sen­tences of hun­dreds of pris­on­ers across three states. The Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury…

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