Kansas v. Marsh
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| Kansas v. Marsh | ||||||||||||
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| Supreme Court of the United States | ||||||||||||
| Argued April 25, 2006 Decided June 26, 2006 |
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| Holding | ||||||||||||
| The Eighth Amendment did not prohibit states from imposing the death penalty when mitigating and aggravating sentencing factors were in equipose. Kansas Supreme Court reversed and remanded. | ||||||||||||
| Court membership | ||||||||||||
| Chief Justice: John Glover Roberts, Jr. Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito |
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| Majority by: Thomas Joined by: Roberts, Scalia, Kennedy, Alito Concurrence by: Scalia Dissent by: Stevens Dissent by: Souter Joined by: Stevens, Ginsburg, Breyer |
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| Laws applied | ||||||||||||
| U.S. Const. amend. VIII | ||||||||||||
Kansas v. Marsh, 548 U.S. 163 (2006), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court. The Court held that a Kansas death penalty statute was consistent with the U.S. Constitution.

