a depraved murder
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 497 U.S. 639 - Walton v. Arizona · 1990Most cited · 2,439 citing opinions
one where "the perpetrator relishes the murder, evidencing debasement or perversion."
Id., at 587, 769 P.2d, at 1033.
How often courts cite the case defining “a depraved murder”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “a depraved murder” — 2,436 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.