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work_42awjrcnp5b4toplbzm2umwg34	Charles L Scott	Ring v. Arizona: who decides death?	2003	4	.pdf	application/pdf	2659	134	60	determine whether the death penalty should be imposed on a capital defendant did not violate the Sixth In particular, the Court found that aggravating factors necessary to impose the death penalty were not elements of of an offense which carries as its maximum penalty the sentence of death, it may be left to the judge to decide whether judge found that this factor did not "call for leniency" and sentenced Ring to death. Ring appealed to the Arizona Supreme Court arguing that Arizona's capital sentencing scheme violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Arizona Supreme Court viewed the Apprendi majority's portrayal of Arizona's capital sentencing law as cases is "far from evident" and observed, additionally, that most states with statutes requiring the presence of aggravating factors entrust those determinations to the jury, not the judge (Ref. 4, p. in cases in which judges had imposed the death penalty on capital defendants.	./cache/work_42awjrcnp5b4toplbzm2umwg34.pdf	./txt/work_42awjrcnp5b4toplbzm2umwg34.txt