459 U.S. 1155
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 17, 1983
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1983-01-17
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1983-01-17
Cited by 98 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2010 · most notably Saffle v. Parks (1990), Board of Ed. of Westside Community Schools (Dist. 66) v. Mergens (1990)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 40 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 sentences in these cases.