434 U.S. 1088
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 21, 1978
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1978-02-21
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1978-02-21
Cited by 213 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois (1978), Adams v. Texas (1980)
54 federal appellate · 3 district · 108 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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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 grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.