459 U.S. 960
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided October 18, 1982
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1982-10-18
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · 413 So. 2d 741 - Hitchcock v. State
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Decided 1982-10-18
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably 488 So. 2d 62 - Williams v. State (1986), 491 So. 2d 1120 - Murray v. State (1986)
4 federal appellate · 47 state decisions
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¶1Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County; and
¶2Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 82-5305, 413 So. 2d 741.
¶3dissenting.
¶4Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the *961Eighth 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.