Massie v. Sumner

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 12, 1981

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1981-01-12

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · 383 So. 2d 369 - State v. Williams · 388 So. 2d 664 - State v. Baldwin

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Decided 1981-01-12

How this case has been cited

Cited by 164 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably Enmund v. Florida (1982), 796 So. 2d 649 - State v. Neal (2001)

24 federal appellate · 109 state decisions

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¶1C. A. 9th Cir.;

¶2Sup. Ct. La.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶4Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶5Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶6Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶7Sup. Ct. La.;

¶8Sup. Ct. La.; and

¶9Sup. Ct. Ga. Certiorari denied. No. 80-5565 Reported below: No. 80-5520, 624 F. 2d 72; 383 So. 2d 369; No. 80-5605, 386 So. 2d 525; No. 80-5672, 246 Ga. 261, 271 S. E. 2d 352; No. 80-5674, 246 Ga. 264, 271 S. E. 2d 173; No. 80-5715, 387 So. 2d 1124 and 389 So. 2d 1335; No. 80-5751, 388 So. 2d 664; No. 80-5778, 246 Ga. 62, 268 S. E. 2d 895.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶10dissenting.

¶11Adhering 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.