434 U.S. 960
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 14, 1977
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1977-11-14
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Blake v. State · Spenkelink v. State
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Decided 1977-11-14
Cited by 82 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010 · most notably Godfrey v. Georgia (1980), 25 Cal. 3d 142 - People v. Frierson (1979)
18 federal appellate · 50 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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¶1Sup. Ct. Ga.; and
¶2Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 77-5488, 239 Ga. 292, 236 S. E. 2d 637; No. 77-5538, 350 So. 2d 85.
¶3dissenting.
¶4Adhering 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.