440 U.S. 928
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 21, 1979
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1979-02-21
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1979-02-21
Cited by 188 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2015 · most notably Adams v. Texas (1980), Sharp v. State (1986)
72 federal appellate · 10 district · 59 state decisions — followed in 18 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.