444 U.S. 1103
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 19, 1980
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1980-02-19
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Coppola v. Commonwealth · Bowden v. Zant
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Decided 1980-02-19
Cited by 120 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2012 · most notably LeVasseur v. Commonwealth (1983), Stockton v. Commonwealth (1984)
26 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
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¶1Sup. Ct. Ga.;
¶2Sup. Ct. Ga.;
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¶4Sup. Ct. Ga.; and
¶5Sup. Ct. Va. Cer-tiorari denied. Reported below: No. 79-5830, 244 Ga. 260, 260 S. E. 2d 465; No. 79-5861, 220 Va. 243, 257 S. E. 2d 797.
¶6dissenting.
¶7Adhering 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.