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Alabama v. Evans, 461 U.S. 230 (1983)
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General SummaryThis case is from a collection containing the full text of over 16,000 Supreme Court cases from 1793 to the present. The body of Supreme Court decisions are, effectively, the final interpretation of the Constitution. Only an amendment to the Constitution can permanently overturn an interpretation and this has happened only four times in American history.
Alabama v. Evans, 461 U.S. 230 (1983)
Alabama v. Evans No. A-858 Decided April 22, 1983 461 U.S. 230
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE STAY OF EXECUTION
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After the Circuit Justice had denied respondent’s application for a stay of execution of his death sentence, he filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in Federal District Court, which temporarily stayed the execution. The Court of Appeals denied the State’s motion to vacate the stay, and the State then filed with the Circuit Justice the instant application to vacate the District Court’s stay. The application was referred to the Court.
Held: The application to vacate the District Court’s stay is granted. Respondent’s constitutional challenges to Alabama’s capital sentencing procedures were reviewed exhaustively by several state and federal courts. There is no merit to respondent’s new challenge that the trial court construed in an unconstitutionally broad manner the statutory aggravating factor of his having knowingly created a great risk of death to many persons. On the facts, there was no violation of the principle established in Godfrey v. Georgia, 446 U.S. 420, that aggravating factors must be construed and applied in a nonarbitrary manner. Nor is there any question that application of the aggravating factor involved here was proper under the Alabama statute as construed by the Alabama courts.
Application to vacate stay granted.
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Chicago: U.S. Supreme Court, "Syllabus," Alabama v. Evans, 461 U.S. 230 (1983) in 461 U.S. 230 Original Sources, accessed November 24, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=7E2CFWA9L17T4U4.
MLA: U.S. Supreme Court. "Syllabus." Alabama v. Evans, 461 U.S. 230 (1983), in 461 U.S. 230, Original Sources. 24 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=7E2CFWA9L17T4U4.
Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Alabama v. Evans, 461 U.S. 230 (1983). cited in 1983, 461 U.S. 230. Original Sources, retrieved 24 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=7E2CFWA9L17T4U4.
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