432 U.S. 911
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 20, 1977
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1977-06-20
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1977-06-20
Cited by 68 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2011 · most notably Lincoln v. Sunn (1987), Rambo v. American Southern Insurance (1988)
23 federal appellate · 4 district · 29 state decisions
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¶1dissenting.
¶2Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would vacate the death sentences in this case.