Walton v. Arizona
Case Date: 05/06/1990
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Walton v. Arizona, 497 U.S. 639 (1990), upheld two important aspects of the capital sentencing scheme in the U.S. state of Arizona — judicial sentencing and the aggravating factor "especially heinous, cruel, or depraved" — as not unconstitutionally vague. The Supreme Court has overruled the first of these holdings in a 2002 decision called Ring v. Arizona, 536 U.S. 584 (2002). The second of these holdings remains good law as of this writing.
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