Celestine v. Blackburn

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 2, 1986

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1986-06-02

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia

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Decided 1986-06-02

How this case has been cited

Cited by 187 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably State v. Bible (1993), Bonin v. Calderon (1995)

46 federal appellate · 2 district · 106 state decisions — followed in 10 states

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¶1 *1164C. A. 5th Cir.;

¶2Sup. Ct. Tenn.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Miss.;

¶4C. A. 11th Cir.;

¶5Ct. Crim. App. Okla.;

*1165No. 85-5736.No. 85-5852.No. 85-6676.No. 85-6692.

¶6Super. Ct. N. C., Lee County;

¶7Sup. Ct. Mo.;

¶8Sup. Ct. 111.; and

¶9Sup. Ct. N. C. Certiorari denied.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶10dissenting.

¶11Adhering 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.