Does the Sixth Amendment guarantee an impartial jury in the context of the death penalty apply to death row defendants?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Armstrong, 243 Cal.Rptr.3d 105, 433 P.3d 987, 6 Cal.5th 735 (Cal. 2019):
"[T]he Sixth Amendments guarantee of an impartial jury confers on capital defendants the right to a jury not uncommonly willing to condemn a man to die. " ( White v. Wheeler (2015) 577 U.S. , , 136 S.Ct. 456, 460, 193 L.Ed.2d 384, quoting Witherspoon v. Illinois , supra , 391 U.S. at p. 521, 88 S.Ct. 1770.) To accommodate this right, " [p]ast decisions
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