Phillips, Scott; Simon, Alena - In: Laws 3 (2014) 1, pp. 85-105
In <i>Furman v. Georgia </i>(1972), the Supreme Court was presented with data indicating that 15% to 20% of death-eligible defendants were actually sentenced to death. Based on such a negligible death sentence rate, some Justices concluded that the imposition of death was random and capricious—a...