KENNEDY, Justice.
This is a death penalty case. This Court has held the proceedings in this case in abeyance since 1987 pending decisions of the United States Supreme Court that are dispositive of a vital issue to be decided by this Court. That issue is whether the imposition of capital punishment on an individual for a capital felony committed at 17 years of age constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.
The petitioner raised that...
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