TISON
v.
ARIZONA (TWO CASES)
TISON
ARIZONA (TWO CASES)
482 U.S. 921
Supreme Court of the United States (1987)
Positive Treatment
Cited by 2 cases
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Richmond v. Lewis, 948 F.2d 1473 (9th Cir. 1990)…olding in Enmund was predicated upon the attenuated nature of the defendant’s responsibility for the deaths in that case. As the Supreme Court pointed out more recently in Tison v. Arizona, 481 U.S. 137, 107 S.Ct. 1676, 95 L.Ed.2d 127, reh’g denied, 482 U.S. 921, 107 S.Ct. 3201, 96 L.Ed.2d 688 (1987), En-mund does not stand for the blanket proposition that capital punishment is unconstitutional in cases of felony murder: [S]ome nonintentional murderers may be among the most dangerous and inhumane of all—th…