IN 1996, THE SUPREME Court of Georgia acknowledged that it might make sense to allow prosecutors to seek a sentence of life imprisonment without parole without first seeking the death penalty. But the justices’ majority opinion said such a matter “is best raised before the Legislature.”
More than a decade later, the Legislature apparently hasn’t cleared things up. A rape case out of South Georgia is giving the state high court another chance to look at the issue.
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