Court - Only juries may vote for death sentences

Tuesday, June 25, 2002

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a jury, not a judge, must determine whether a capital defendant gets the death penalty, a decision that could ultimately take more people off death row than any other ruling by the court in three decades.

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