Federal Judicial Center -- 2004
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       E  Certificate of Nondiscrimination

Under both death-penalty statutes, after the jury makes a determination regarding the appropriate sentence, it is required to return to the court a form, signed by each juror, that certifies that consideration of race, color, religious beliefs, national origin, or sex of the defendant or victim or victims was not involved in the juror’s decision regarding the sentence, and that each juror would have made the same recommendation no matter what these characteristics of the defendant and victim or victims were.