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PENRY v. JOHNSON, 00-6677

Where defendant has offered extensive evidence that he was mentally retarded and had been severely abused as a child, the jury may consider and give mitigating effect to that evidence in imposing sentence.

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  • Decided 06/04/2001
  • Published 06/04/2001

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