Walker v. Illinois

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 1, 1986

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1986-12-01

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · 105 Wash. 2d 692 - State v. Kwan Fai Mak · 494 So. 2d 124 - Magwood v. State

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Decided 1986-12-01

How this case has been cited

Cited by 367 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably 127 Wash. 2d 322 - State v. McFarland (1995), 123 Wash. 2d 641 - State v. Hill (1994)

29 federal appellate · 2 district · 310 state decisions — followed in 12 states

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¶1Sup. Ct. Ill.;

¶2Ct. App. Md.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶4Ct. Crim. App. Okla.;

¶5Ct. Crim. App. Ala.;

¶6Sup. Ct. Wash.;

¶7Ct. Crim. App. Okla.; and

¶8Sup. Ct. Ga. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 86-277, 109 Ill. 2d 484, 488 N. E. 2d 529; No. 86-5453, 306 Md. 428, 509 A. 2d 1179; No. 86-5617, 489 So. 2d 720; No. 86-5631, 720 P. 2d 734; No. 86-5639, 494 So. 2d 124; No. 86-5644, 105 Wash. 2d 692, 718 P. 2d 407; No. 86-5683, 723 P. 2d 273; No. 86-5686, 256 Ga. 140, 344 S. E. 2d 644.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶9dissenting.

¶10Adhering 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.