Parrish v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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15 state decisions

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1. “These instructions do not violate the statutory system, nor do they invade the province of the jury. Instruction No. 7 followed the one in 1 CoopeR, Kentucky Instructions To Juries (Criminal) § 12.08 (4th ed. 1999). We find this to be a proper statement of the law. The instructions allowed the jury to consider options other than death, even when a finding is made as to aggravating circumstances. Wilson v. Commonwealth, Ky., 836 S.W.2d 872 (1992). There was no error and no violation of either the federal or state constitutions. Instruction No. 7 did not, as Parrish asserts, instruct the jurors that they should impose the death penalty unless they had a reasonable doubt that death was the appropriate penalty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hunt v. Commonwealth