Hill v. Florida

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided November 7, 1983

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1983-11-07

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Bunch v. Commonwealth · Hill v. State

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Decided 1983-11-07

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Cited by 127 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Assn. (1988), Frye v. Commonwealth (1986)

19 federal appellate · 3 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 14 states

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¶1Sup. Ct. Miss.;

¶2Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Va.; and

¶4Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 83-5153, 432 So. 2d 427; No. 83-5389, 251 Ga. 255, 304 S. E. 2d 882; No. 83-5406, 225 Va. 423, 304 S. E. 2d 271; No. 83-5567, 429 So. 2d 301.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶5dissenting.

¶6Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth *978and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.