Gregg v. Georgia made bifurcated trials the universal capital-sentencing procedure
Evidence
In Woodson v. North Carolina (1976), the Supreme Court invalidated the former approach. But in Gregg v. Georgia (1976), it upheld a Georgia statute that established a two-stage trial in capital cases; and in the wake of Gregg, all death-penalty states have adopted this bifurcated-trial approach. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2015
Categorization
- XREF: Directly links to the course’s Furman/Gregg death-penalty doctrine sequence on Eighth Amendment jurisprudence. — connects to: American capital sentencing historically concentrated both verdict and punishment in the jury. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 1996; Bifurcated capital trials split guilt determination from structured sentencing decisions — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2016; The 1976 Gregg ruling made bifurcated capital trials universal across death-penalty states