457 U.S. 1140
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 21, 1982
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1982-06-21
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Arango v. State · Krier v. State
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Decided 1982-06-21
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2003
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
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¶1Sup. Ct. Fla.; and
¶2Sup. Ct. Ga. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-6570, 411 So. 2d 172; No. 81-6598, 249 Ga. 80, 287 S. E. 2d 531.
¶3Adhering 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.