Criminal – Death Penalty – Eigth Amendment

By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 19, 2009

A Prince William County Circuit Court rejects defendant’s challenge to Virginia’s death penalty statute on Eighth Amendment grounds, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Baze v. Rees, 553 U.S. __ (2008). Based upon the controlling authority on this particular subject, the court finds the Virginia death penalty statutes are constitutional. Specifically, this court ...

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