Dick v. Kemp

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided November 14, 1983

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1983-11-14

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · 435 So. 2d 766 - Ex Parte Womack · State v. Richmond

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Decided 1983-11-14

How this case has been cited

Cited by 325 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Tison v. Arizona (1987), United States v. Casamento (1989)

118 federal appellate · 4 district · 161 state decisions — followed in 13 states

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¶1Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶2Sup. Ct. La.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Ariz.;

¶4Sup. Ct. Ala.;

¶5Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and

¶6Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 83-5367, 432 So. 2d 209; No. 83-5449, 136 Ariz. 312, 666 P. 2d 57; No. 83-5454, 435 So. 2d 766; No. 83-5457, 661 S. W. 2d 936; No. 83-5463, 432 So. 2d 35.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶7dissenting.

¶8Adhering 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.