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Defense-requested penalty-phase instruction against considering or speculating about incarceration costs
The defense requested an instruction barring jurors from considering or speculating about incarceration costs when choosing between life imprisonment and death. The government did not object but maintained that no error had occurred and the instruction was unnecessary; the court did not decide here that it would give the instruction.