Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 4 10

 


Crime Classification Manual Part I Chapter 4 10

A STANDARD SYSTEM FOR INVESTIGATING AND CLASSIFYING VIOLENT CRIMES

SECOND EDITION

John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess, and Robert K. Ressler, Editors

 

Despite those allowances, inconsistency in defining the worst of crimes has afflicted numerous cases. The Supreme Court in Godfrey v. Georgia (1980), for example, reversed a capital sentence, stating, “There is nothing in these few words, standing alone, that implies any inherent restraint on the arbitrary and capricious infliction of the death sentence.” Any sensible person could “fairly characterize almost every murder as outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible and inhuman.” Jury instructions in Godfrey, ruled the Court, gave no guidance or explanation concerning the meaning of that aggravating factor, leading to what the Court called “the standardless and unchanneled imposition of the death sentences”

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