435 U.S. 937
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 20, 1978
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1978-03-20
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1978-03-20
Cited by 332 later decisions — most recently September 1994 · most notably 98 Ill. 2d 502 - People v. Yates (1983), 94 Ill. 2d 514 - People v. Bryant (1983)
12 federal appellate · 317 state decisions
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¶1dissenting.
¶2Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishmént 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.