Scope and Contents This case concerns a death penalty verdict for Lloyd Earl Jackson, and is significant for being the first time a death sentence was affrimed by justices since 1967, and the death penalty's reinstatement in California in 1977. The ACLU represented Jackson, who was described by the press as a "impoverished, illiterate...black youth." He was appealing his death sentence following a conviction of two counts of first degree murder and two counts of burglery committed in Long Beach in 1977. He...