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  • Title: South Dakota's Aggravating Circumstances on Trial.
  • Author : South Dakota Law Review
  • Release Date : January 22, 2008
  • Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 295 KB

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With the recent execution of Elijah Page, South Dakota has once again become a state active in administering capital punishment. In 1972, the landmark decision of Furman v. Georgia held that all current state death penalty statutes were unconstitutional because they did not properly narrow the class of defendants who are eligible for the death penalty. In response, several states, including South Dakota, enacted revised death penalty statutes which contained aggravating circumstances to adhere to the mandate imposed by Furman. Currently, several of South Dakota's aggravating circumstances are vague and overbroad. As a result, South Dakota should amend or repeal these aggravating circumstances that do not follow the mandate left by Furman. I. INTRODUCTION


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