United States Supreme Court

With regards to the imposition of a death sentence, an invalidated sentencing factor, whether an eligibility factor or not, will render a sentence unconstitutional by reason of its adding an improper element to the aggravation scale in the weighing process, unless one of the other sentencing factors enables the sentencer to give aggravating weight to the same facts and circumstances.

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• Decided 01/11/2006
• Published 01/11/2006

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• United States Supreme Court

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