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Possibility of Life in Control Unit Doesn't Mitigate Death

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2001 published in Prison Legal News September, 2001, page 25
Filed under: Gang Policies, Sentencing, Death Penalty. Location: Illinois.
Possibility of Life In Control Unit Doesn't Mitigate Death

The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has held that the possibility of life imprisonment in a control unit is not a mitigating factor in a federal death penalty case.

Darryl Lamont Johnson, a federal prisoner, is allegedly a high-ranking ...

 

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