444 U.S. 974
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 26, 1979
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1979-11-26
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1979-11-26
Cited by 135 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2012 · most notably Amadeo v. Zant (1988), Presbytery of Beaver-Butler v. Middlesex Presbyterian Church (1985)
49 federal appellate · 6 district · 24 state decisions
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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 sentence in this case.