441 U.S. 967
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 21, 1979
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1979-05-21
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1979-05-21
Cited by 274 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. v. Byrd (1985), Godfrey v. Georgia (1980)
58 federal appellate · 8 district · 153 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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¶1Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;
¶2Sup. Ct. Ga.;
¶3Sup. Ct. Va.; and
¶4Sup. Ct. Fla. Certio-rari denied.
¶5dissenting.
¶6Adhering 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.