Demps v. Florida

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 13, 1981

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1981-10-13

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · State v. Dicks · State v. Martin

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Decided 1981-10-13

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Cited by 156 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2004 · most notably Connecticut v. Johnson (1983), Coe v. Bell (1998)

29 federal appellate · 112 state decisions

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¶1Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶2Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Tenn.;

¶4Sup. Ct. Ark.; and

¶5Sup. Ct. N. C. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-5038, 395 So. 2d 501; No. 81-5169, 396 So. 2d 1113; No. 81-5192, 615 S. W. 2d 126; No. 81-5271, 272 Ark. 340, 617 S. W. 2d 1; No. 81-5336, 303 N. C. 246, 278 S. E. 2d 214.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶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.