Abstract
After briefly tracing the development of the law of American capital punishment from pre-revolutionary to modern times, Professor Poulos discusses the 1972 United States Supreme Court decisions in Furman v. Georgia and McGautha v. California. Professor Poulos then analyzes mandatory death penalty statutes enacted by twenty-two states in response to Furman and discusses the reasons why the Court struck down such statutes in the 1976 death penalty cases.
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28 Ariz. L. Rev. 143 (1986)
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