New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito broke a tie Monday in a ruling that affirmed Kansas' death penalty law and revealed the Court's deep divisions over capital punishment. The law says juries should impose death sentences if aggravating evidence and mitigating factors are equal in weight. The five conservative justices, including Alito, overturned a Kansas Supreme Court ruling that found the law violated the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishment.
June 27, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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New Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito broke a tie Monday in a ruling that affirmed a state death penalty law and also revealed the Court’s deep divisions over capital punishment.
Justices split 5-4 in the term’s oldest case, which was argued in December before Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s retirement and then again with Alito on the bench.
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