Justice Antonin Scalia's Last Opinion

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Law;    Supreme Court;    Supreme Court justices;   

RP-ID  :  crs_ls_2016Mar15_lastop

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report discusses Justice Antonin Scalia's last opinion for the court (Kansas v. Carr). There, the Court reversed two decisions of the Kansas Supreme Court and held that "the Eighth Amendment [does not] require... capital-sentencing courts to instruct the jury that mitigating circumstances need not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt." It also held that the Eighth Amendment did not require separate trials for two of the defendants in one of the Kansas cases.