High v. Georgia

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 25, 1982

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1982-01-25

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · High v. State · Wallace v. State

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Decided 1982-01-25

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2000 · most notably Horton v. California (1990), Medina v. California (1992)

20 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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¶1Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶2Sup. Ct. S. C.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Va.;

¶4Sup. Ct. Ga.; and

¶5Sup. Ct. Ga. Cer-tiorari denied. Reported below: No. 80-6843, 247 Ga. 289, 276 S. E. 2d 5; No. 81-5687, 222 Va. 369, 282 S. E. 2d 10; No. 81-5801, 248 Ga. 255, 282 S. E. 2d 325.

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.