466 U.S. 909
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 26, 1984
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1984-03-26
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Williams v. State · King v. State
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Decided 1984-03-26
Cited by 107 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2017 · most notably Harris v. Alabama (1995), 564 So. 2d 1060 - Porter v. State (1990)
1 federal appellate · 93 state decisions
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¶1Sup. Ct. Fla. Certio-rari denied. Reported below: No. 83-5940, 436 So. 2d 50; No. 83-6184, 437 So. 2d 133.
¶2dissenting.
¶3Adhering 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.