428 U.S. 911
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided July 6, 1976
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1976-07-06
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Decided 1976-07-06
Cited by 137 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2015 · most notably Pulley v. Harris (1984), 559 So. 2d 187 - State v. Law (1989)
3 federal appellate · 119 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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¶1dissenting.
¶2Because I consider the death penalty to be a cruel and unusual punishment forbidden by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, see Gregg v. Georgia, ante, p. 231 (Marshall, J., dissenting), I would grant certiorari in these cases [No. 74-5196 through No. 75-6653] and vacate the judgments insofar as they leave undisturbed the sentences of death.