repealed-statute

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
18-1298 Mario Dion Woodward v. Alabama Alabama 2019-04-15 Denied arbitrary-and-discriminatory cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-override jury-sentencing repealed-statute sentencing sixth-amendment Pursuant to Ala. C. § 13-A-5-47(e)(1975), Alabama previously allowed trial judges to override a jury's vote for a life sentence and, based on new evid…