WEBB, Justice.
In McKoy, the United States Supreme Court held that the defendant's constitutional rights were violated because, pursuant to the court's instructions, no juror could consider a mitigating circumstance in determining whether a death sentence should be imposed if such mitigating circumstance was not unanimously found by the jury. This would be so even if such a juror felt the circumstance had mitigating value. In this case, the court instructed...
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