at 175. The objective.of the guidelines. The primary decisionmaker at each of the intervening steps of the process is the prosecutor, the quintessential state actor in a criminal proceeding. 4, Tit. Solem v. Helm, 463 U.S. 277, 289-290 (1983); see Rummel v. Estelle, 445 U.S. 263, 293 (1980) (POWELL, J., dissenting). at 449. Post at 367. . Id. Find Department Assignments or Telephone Numbers for Judges. Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McCleskey and the American Death Penalty, Police Role in the Offie Evans Conversation, The Sixth Amendment Claim Gets Lost in a Habeas Corpus Procedure Issue, American Death Penalty History and the Courts, The First Limits: The Early American Death Penalty through the 1850s, Wars and Death Penalty Abolition: The Civil War through World War II, A Time of Change: American Society and the Death Penalty in the 1950s through the 1960s, Into the Courthouse: The 1970s Abolition Strategy, A New Era: A New U.S. Death Penalty Returns in the Late 1970s, Starting Over: Executions Resume in the 1970s and 1980s, The Capital Punishment Debate Moves outside the Courts after, A Moratorium Movement Emerges in the 1990s, McCleskeys Legacy in the Early Twenty-First Century, The Early Twenty-First Century Death Penalty in the Courts, The Early Twenty-First Century Death Penalty in U.S. Baldus concluded that in capital cases, the race of the defendant and victim determined who was sentenced to death. Ante at 315, n. 37. The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, sitting en banc, carefully reviewed the District Court's decision on McCleskey's claim. This self-imposed restriction enables the Court to distinguish this case from the venire-selection cases and cases under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in which it long has accepted statistical evidence and has provided an easily applicable framework for review. That is, we refuse to convict if the chance of error is simply less likely than not. Furman held only that, in order to minimize the risk that the death penalty would be imposed on a capriciously selected group of offenders, the decision to impose it had to be guided by standards, so that the sentencing authority would focus on the particularized circumstances of the crime and the defendant. These have been honorable steps, but we cannot pretend that, in three decades, we have completely escaped the grip of a historical legacy spanning centuries. Where such considerations are shown to be significant, efforts can be made to eradicate their impermissible influence and to ensure an evenhanded application of criminal sanctions. These authors found that, in close cases in which jurors were most often in disagreement. 306-313. You do not currently have access to this chapter. The Court treats the case as if it is limited to challenges to the actions of two specific decisionmaking bodies -- the petit jury and the state legislature. at 28. McCleskey Mausoleum Associates' pride comes from providing a quality product requiring minimal maintenance . ." Accordingly, those issues are before us. If you see Sign in through society site in the sign in pane within a journal: If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society. Eventually, the Sixth Amendment issue went to the U.S. Supreme Court. The majority thus misreads our Eighth Amendment jurisprudence in concluding that McCleskey has not demonstrated a degree of risk sufficient to raise constitutional concern. H.R. See Alexander v. Louisiana, 405 U.S. 625, 631-632 (1972); Whitus v. Georgia, 385 U.S. 545, 551-552 (1967). 428 U.S. at 179-180. [n30] Our efforts have been guided by our recognition that. 1981 and 1982). Capital punishment is now the law in more than two-thirds of our States. We noted: In 1968 when the case went to trial, the [Los Angeles] District was 53.6% white, 22.6% black, 20% Hispanic, and 3.8% Asian and other. The Court today holds that Warren McCleskey's sentence was constitutionally imposed. Judicial scrutiny is particularly appropriate in McCleskey's case because "[m]ore subtle, less consciously held racial attitudes could also influence" the decisions in the Georgia capital sentencing system. That is, the court assumed that the study. JUSTICE MARSHALL pointed to statistics indicating that. [n10]. The Georgia Supreme Court found that his death sentence was not disproportionate to other death sentences imposed in the State. As discussed above, McCleskey presented evidence of numerous decisions impermissibly affected by racial factors over a significant number of cases. The Gregg-type statute imposes unprecedented safeguards in the special context of capital punishment. McCleskey v. Georgia, 449 U.S. 891 (1980). But we never reached any concrete stage on that, because Mr. McCleskey's attitude was that he didn't want to enter a plea. As the dissent suggests, this evidence is not particularly probative when assessing the application of Georgia's capital punishment system through the actions of prosecutors and juries, as we did in Part II-A, supra. But unless historical evidence is reasonably contemporaneous with the challenged decision, it has little probative value. McCleskey secured the front of the store by rounding up the customers and forcing them to lie face down on the floor. For many years, Georgia operated openly and formally precisely the type of dual system the evidence shows is still effectively in place. For full access to this pdf, sign in to an existing account, or purchase an annual subscription. Exh. If Georgia were to narrow the class of death-eligible defendants to those categories, the danger of arbitrary and discriminatory imposition of the death penalty would be significantly decreased, if not eradicated. See n. 28, supra. Wayte v. United States, 470 U.S. 598, 608 (1985). Furthermore, counsel would feel bound to tell McCleskey that defendants charged with killing white victims in Georgia are 4.3 times as likely to be sentenced to death as defendants charged with killing blacks. Of these men, 58 were black and 4 were white. The evidence at trial indicated that McCleskey and three accomplices planned and carried out the robbery. [cannot] be precluded from considering, as a mitigating factor, any aspect of a defendant's character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant proffers as a basis for a sentence less than death. Do not use an Oxford Academic personal account. Sentencing data, history, and experience all counsel that Georgia has provided insufficient assurance of the heightened rationality we have required in order to take a human life. The determination of the significance of his evidence is at its core an exercise in human moral judgment, not a mechanical statistical analysis. . boston firefighter funeral today. [n6] Such execution figures are especially striking in light of the fact that, during the period encompassed by the Baldus study, only 9.2% of Georgia homicides involved black defendants and white victims, while 60.7% involved black victims. On the one [p281] hand, he cannot base a constitutional claim on an argument that his case differs from other cases in which defendants did receive the death penalty. POWELL, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which REHNQUIST, C.J., and WHITE, O'CONNOR, and SCALIA, JJ., joined. 391 U.S. at 519 (emphasis omitted). Supp. His disproportionality claim "is of a different sort." Moreover, the legislative history of the Fourteenth Amendment reminds us that discriminatory enforcement of States' criminal laws was a matter of great concern for the drafters. . McCleskey, a black man, was convicted of two counts of armed robbery and one count of murder in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, on October 12, 1978. Lawrence, The Id, The Ego, and Equal Protection: Reckoning With Unconscious Racism, 39 Stan.L.Rev. . %PDF-1.5 % When questioned directly as to how the office decided whether to seek the death penalty, Slaton listed several factors he thought relevant to that decision, including the strength of the evidence, the atrociousness of the crime, and the likelihood that a jury would impose the death sentence. 84-6811) 753 F.2d 877, affirmed. It must demonstrate that legitimate racially neutral criteria and procedures yielded this racially skewed result. Judges of the Court are appointed by the Governor-General by commission and may not be removed . These ensure a degree of care in the imposition of the sentence of death that can be described only as unique. This is the second time he is holding an event in the country. [n42] Also, there is no logical reason that such a claim need be limited to racial or sexual bias. BLACKMUN, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which MARSHALL and STEVENS, JJ., joined, and in all but Part IV-B of which BRENNAN, J., joined, post, p. 345. Prosecutorial decisions necessarily involve both judgmental and factual decisions that vary from case to case. As with sentencing, therefore, peremptory challenges are justified as an occasion for particularized determinations related to specific individuals, and, as with sentencing, we presume that such challenges normally are not made on the basis of a factor such as race. Under Georgia law, the jury could not consider imposing the death penalty unless it found beyond a reasonable doubt that the murder was accompanied by one of the statutory aggravating circumstances. The foregoing factors necessarily exist in varying degrees throughout our criminal justice system. Increasingly, whites are becoming a minority in many of the larger American cities. See Shuman v. Wolff, 791 F.2d 788 (CA9), cert. JUSTICE BRENNAN has thoroughly demonstrated, ante that, if one assumes that the statistical evidence presented by petitioner McCleskey is valid, as we must in light of the Court of Appeals' assumption, [n1] there exists in the Georgia capital sentencing scheme a risk of racially based discrimination that is so acute that it violates the Eighth Amendment. In addition to this showing that the challenged system was susceptible to abuse, McCleskey presented evidence of the [p359] history of prior discrimination in the Georgia system. . As to McCleskey's Fourteenth Amendment claim, the court found that the methodology of the Baldus study was flawed in several respects. Ibid. Ante at 298, n. 20. [n17]See Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409, 425-426 (1976). View your signed in personal account and access account management features. Second, States cannot limit the sentencer's consideration of any relevant circumstance that could cause it to decline to impose the penalty. may, for all practical purposes, demonstrate unconstitutionality, because, in various circumstances, the discrimination is very difficult to explain on nonracial grounds. Do not use an Oxford Academic personal account. Select your institution from the list provided, which will take you to your institution's website to sign in. The trial judge determines the final sentence. the "aggravating" label to factors that are constitutionally impermissible or totally irrelevant to the sentencing process, such as for example the race, religion, or political affiliation of the defendant. knowingly created a great risk of death to more than one person in a public place by means of a weapon or device which would normally be hazardous to the lives of more than one person; (4) The offender committed the offense . This chapter recounts how death penalty lawyers attempted to raise constitutional challenges to capital punishment based upon racial discrimination. [n11]. 72; Tr. Of the 17 defendants, including [p357] McCleskey, who were arrested and charged with homicide of a police officer in Fulton County during the 1973-1979 period, McCleskey, alone, was sentenced to death. We now address this claim. Our books are available by subscription or purchase to libraries and institutions. The researchers could not discover whether penalty trials were held in many of the cases, thus undercutting the value of the study's statistics as to prosecutorial decisions. In a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., the Court ruled against McCleskey and found that unless he could submit evidence showing that a specific person in his case acted with a racially discriminatory purpose, McCleskeys death sentence and the stark racial disparities in Georgias capital punishment system would stand. 54. McCleskey, Harriger, Brazill & Graf is one of the oldest and largest law firms in West Texas, and we pride ourselves on our heritage and contributions to this region. . Models that are developed talk about the effect on the average. Id. Finally, the assessment would not be complete without the information that cases involving black defendants and white victims are more likely to result in a death sentence than cases featuring any other racial combination of defendant and victim. treats all persons convicted of a designated offense not as unique individual human beings, but as members of a faceless, undifferentiated mass to be subjected to the blind infliction of the penalty of death. Of the more than 200 variables potentially relevant to a sentencing decision, race of the victim is a powerful explanation for variation in death sentence rates -- as powerful as nonracial aggravating factors such as a prior murder conviction or acting as the principal planner of the homicide. Irvin v. Dowd, 366 U.S. 717 (1961). at 363-364. Although I would agree that evidence of "official actions taken long ago" could not alone establish that the current system is applied in an unconstitutionally discriminatory manner, I disagree with the Court's statement that such evidence is now irrelevant. To add money from a bank account, simply follow these steps :. Login to your PayPal account. Although it believed that McCleskey's Eighth Amendment claim was foreclosed by the Fifth Circuit's decision in Spinkellink v. Wainwright, 678 F.2d 682, 612-616 (1978), cert. He appears to argue that the State has violated the Equal [p298] Protection Clause by adopting the capital punishment statute and allowing it to remain in force despite its allegedly discriminatory application. Vasquez v. Hillery, 474 U.S. 254 (1986). Phone: (800) 622.5759 Yet McCleskey's case raises concerns that are central not only to the principles underlying the Eighth Amendment, but also to the principles underlying the Fourteenth Amendment. at 372 (emphasis omitted). 59, 60, Tr. The court found this assumption "questionable." McCleskey Mausoleum Associates pride comes from providing a quality product requiring minimal maintenance, delivered in a reasonable schedule, with maximum consumer satisfaction. In Godfrey, for instance, the Court struck down the petitioner's sentence because the vagueness of the statutory definition of heinous crimes created a risk that prejudice [p324] or other impermissible influences might have infected the sentencing decision. See below. Petitioner's statistical proffer must be viewed in the context of his challenge to decisions at the heart of the State's criminal justice system. Invalidation of a criminal conviction on federal constitutional grounds does not necessarily preclude retrial and resentencing of the defendant by the State. [S]ometimes it is not known who the perpetrators are; but when that is known, no action is taken against them. If there's room for the exercise of discretion, then the [racial] factors begin to play a role. Moreover, the sophistication of McCleskey's evidence permits consideration of the existence of racial discrimination at various decision points in the process, not merely at the jury decision. The Court correctly points out: In its broadest form, McCleskey's claim of discrimination extends to every actor in the Georgia capital sentencing process, from the prosecutor who [p350] sought the death penalty and the jury that imposed the sentence, to the State itself that enacted the capital punishment statute and allows it to remain in effect despite its allegedly discriminatory application. [n8] The most persuasive evidence of the constitutionally significant effect of racial factors in the Georgia capital sentencing system is McCleskey's proof that the race of the victim is more important in explaining the imposition of a death sentence than is the factor whether the defendant was a prime mover in the homicide. ", Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, 11 (1967) (quoting Hirabayashi v. United States, 320 U.S. 81, 100 (1943)). Immigration Court. While sufficient provocation could reduce a charge of murder to manslaughter, the code provided that. Hill v. Texas, 316 U.S. at 406. JUSTICE WHITE observed that the claim that prosecutors might act in an arbitrary fashion was "unsupported by any facts," and that prosecutors must be assumed to exercise their charging duties properly "[a]bsent facts to the contrary. " [p331] Justice Douglas cited studies suggesting imposition of the death penalty in racially discriminatory fashion, and found the standardless statutes before the Court "pregnant with discrimination." (a) To prevail under that Clause, petitioner must prove that the decisionmakers in his case acted with discriminatory purpose. 341 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<16855F6BE722C0468FE731A2E2AD9B6A>]/Index[324 32]/Info 323 0 R/Length 87/Prev 183310/Root 325 0 R/Size 356/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream While I join Parts I through IV-A of JUSTICE BLACKMUN's dissenting opinion discussing petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment claim, I write separately to emphasize how conclusively [p321] McCleskey has also demonstrated precisely the type of risk of irrationality in sentencing that we have consistently condemned in our Eighth Amendment jurisprudence. Commandant, The Judge Advocate General's School MAJOR KYLE W. GREEN, USAF Editor, The Air Force Law Review MAJOR RICHARD J. HENRY, USA Assistant Editor MR. GRAHAM E. "STEVE" STEVENS Managing Editor EDITORIAL BOARD COLONEL RANDY A. HUMMEL, USAFR LIEUTENANT COLONEL JUAN-CARLOS GUERRERO, USAF LIEUTENANT COLONEL MICHAEL P. CHIFFOLO, USAFR Exh. In Gregg v. Georgia, supra, this Court found that the Georgia capital sentencing system could operate in a fair and neutral manner. The State cannot meet this burden on mere general assertions that its officials did not discriminate, or that they properly performed their official duties. See CASS R. SUNSTEIN, ONE CASE AT A TIME: JUDICIAL MINIMALISM ON THE SU- In more recent times, we have sought to free ourselves from the burden of this history. [n37][p314]. The Assistant District Attorney who prosecuted McCleskey's case testified that race did not influence his decision to seek the death penalty in the present case. When on the institution site, please use the credentials provided by your institution. Exh. Dcouvrez le trsor sucre d'Oman, un fruit unique et savoureux venu tout droit d'orient pour le bonheur de tous les gourmets. McCleskey v. Kemp , 481 U.S. 279 (1987), is a United States Supreme Court case, in which the death penalty sentencing of Warren McCleskey for armed robbery and murder was upheld. Our records show Harvey N Mccleskey (64) as possible relative. I am persuaded that it is, but orderly procedure requires that the Court of Appeals address this issue before we actually decide the question. who could demonstrate that members of his race were being singled out for more severe punishment than others charged with the same offense. I concentrate on the decisions within the prosecutor's office through which the State decided to seek the death penalty and, in particular, the point at which the State proceeded to the penalty phase after conviction. 338, 379-380 (ND Ga.1984). Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 226 (1976) (WHITE, J., concurring). In making these choices, they may favor homicides that are visible and disturbing to the majority of the community, and these will tend to be white-victim homicides. 2 W. LaFave & J. Israel, Criminal Procedure 13.2(a), p. 160 (1984). I agree that narrowing the class of death-eligible defendants is not too high a price to pay for a death penalty system that does not discriminate on the basis of race. 4. The reference to the failure to provide juries with the list of aggravating and mitigating factors is curious. 56, 57; Transcript of Federal Habeas Corpus Hearing in No. The Supreme Court's decision in McCleskey protected criminal justice laws and . As a result of McCleskey's discovery efforts, the record also contains relevant testimonial evidence by two state officials. All of these are administered pursuant to this Court's decisions interpreting the limits of the Eighth Amendment on the imposition of the death penalty, and all are subject to ultimate review by this Court. 1613-1614, 1664. The Baldus study does not establish that the administration of the Georgia capital punishment system violates the Equal Protection Clause. 1. For the Georgia system as a whole, race accounts for a six percentage point difference in the rate at which capital punishment is imposed. As to the final element of the prima facie case, McCleskey showed that the process by which the State decided to seek a death penalty in his case and to pursue that sentence throughout the prosecution was susceptible to abuse. That a decision to impose the death penalty could be influenced by race is thus a particularly repugnant prospect, and evidence that race may play even a modest role in levying a death sentence should be enough to characterize that sentence as "cruel and unusual.". 978-981. McCleskey's argument that the Constitution condemns the discretion allowed decisionmakers in the Georgia capital sentencing system is antithetical to the fundamental role of discretion in our criminal justice system. Petitioner's arguments are best presented to the legislative bodies, not the courts. The files contained information only as to the evidence in the case, not any indication as to why an attorney made a particular decision. In rebuttal, the State's expert suggested that, if the Baldus thesis was correct, then the aggravation level in black-victim cases where a life sentence was imposed would be higher than in white-victim cases. McCleskey then filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the [p286] Superior Court of Butts County. Numerous legitimate factors may influence the outcome of a trial and a defendant's ultimate sentence, even though they may be irrelevant to his actual guilt. Yet, as Alexander Bickel wrote: It is a premise we deduce not merely from the fact of a written constitution but from the history of the race, and ultimately as a moral judgment of the good society, that government should serve not only what we conceive [p343] from time to time to be our immediate material needs, but also certain enduring values. Any exclusion of the "compassionate or mitigating factors stemming from the diverse frailties of humankind" that are relevant to the sentencer's decision would fail to treat all persons as "uniquely individual human beings." Ex parte Virginia, 100 U.S. 339 (1880) (upholding validity of conviction of state judge for discriminating on the basis of race in his selection of jurors). But it is not less real or pernicious. Ante at 296. 17-10-30(b) (1982), ante at 284-285, n. 3. Notwithstanding these efforts, murder defendants in Georgia with white victims are more than four times as likely to receive the death sentence as are defendants with black victims. Case: 14-41127 Document: 00513601530 Page: 2 Date Filed: 07/20/2016 Over the years, this Court has consistently repudiated "[d]istinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry" as being "odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. 701 (1980). Ante at 294-295. 1.5. application of an inference drawn from the general statistics to a specific decision in a trial and sentencing simply is not comparable to the application of an inference drawn from general statistics to a specific venire-selection or Title VII [p362] case. It concluded, however, that the State did not conclusively disprove McCleskey's case; yet it reasoned that the State's theory "stands to contradict any prima facie case." [n7] He argues that race has infected the administration of Georgia's statute in two ways: persons who murder whites are more likely to be sentenced to death than persons who murder blacks, and black murderers are more likely to be sentenced to death than white murderers. [n12] The attorneys were not required to report to Slaton the cases in which they decided not to seek the death penalty, id. Id. The Georgia Code has been revised and renumbered since McCleskey's trial. See also Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978), 29 CFR 1607.4(B) (1986) (employer must keep records as to the "following races and ethnic groups: Blacks, American Indians (including Alaskan Natives), Asians (including Pacific Islanders), Hispanics (including persons of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish origin or culture regardless of race), and whites (Caucasians) other than Hispanics"); U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1980 Census of the Population, Vol. See Shaare Tefila Congregation v. Cobb, 785 F.2d 523 (CA4), cert. No one contends that all sentencing disparities can be eliminated. Thus, it is difficult to imagine guidelines that would produce the predictability sought by the dissent without sacrificing the discretion essential to a humane and fair system of criminal justice. suggest, at least as a historical matter, that Negroes have been sentenced to death with greater frequency than whites in several States, particularly for the crime of interracial rape. The Court's decision appears to be based on a fear that the acceptance of McCleskey's claim would sound the death knell for capital punishment in Georgia. Ga.Code Ann. 306-308. 308-312. 393, 407 (1857). No. . Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. at 383 (Burger, C.J., dissenting). [n6] Third, he must establish that the allegedly [p353] discriminatory procedure is susceptible to abuse or is not racially neutral. where discretion is afforded a sentencing body on a matter so grave as the determination of whether a human life should be taken or spared, that discretion must be suitably directed and limited so as to minimize the risk of wholly arbitrary and capricious action. The State did not test its hypothesis to determine if white-victim and black-victim cases at the same level of aggravating circumstances were similarly treated. It would be improper, and often prejudicial, to allow jurors to speculate as to aggravating circumstances wholly without support in the evidence. In dissent, Chief Justice Burger acknowledged that statistics. Ibid. . Analysis of his case in terms of the Fourteenth Amendment is consistent with this Court's recognition that racial discrimination is fundamentally at odds with our constitutional guarantee of equal protection. 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