Blanks v. Georgia

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 24, 1986

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1986-03-24

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · 475 So. 2d 1228 - Roman v. State · Curry v. State

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Decided 1986-03-24

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Cited by 101 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (1986), Amos v. Scott (1995)

8 federal appellate · 62 state decisions

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¶1Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶2Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

¶3Super. Ct. Ga., Houston County;

¶4Sup. Ct. Ga.;

¶5Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶6Ct. Crim. App. Tenn.; and

¶7Sup. Ct. Ill. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-5375, 254 Ga. 420, 330 S. E. 2d 575; No. 85-6145, 697 S. W. 2d 404; No. 85-6259, 255 Ga. 215, 336 S. E. 2d 762; No. 85-6268, 475 So. 2d 1228; No. 85-6275, 109 Ill. 2d 19, 485 N. E. 2d 363.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶8dissenting.

¶9Adhering 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.