464 U.S. 1073
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 16, 1984
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1984-01-16
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1984-01-16
Cited by 224 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2012 · most notably Arizona v. Roberson (1988), Professional Real Estate Investors, Inc. v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. (1993)
89 federal appellate · 11 district · 82 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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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 *1074and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.