Compton v. New Mexico

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 14, 1986

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1986-10-14

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Bowers v. State · State v. Compton

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Decided 1986-10-14

How this case has been cited

Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently December 2011 · most notably United States v. Singleton (1998), Hunt v. State (1990)

62 federal appellate · 2 district · 41 state decisions — followed in 10 states

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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¶1Sup. Ct. N. M.;

¶2Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶3Ct. App. Md.; and

¶4Sup. Ct. Ga. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-6753, 104 N. M. 683, *891726 P. 2d 837; No. 85-7122, 483 So. 2d 424; No. 86-5021, 306 Md. 120, 507 A. 2d 1072.

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 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.