Glenn v. Ohio

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 15, 1987

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1987-06-15

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Hicks v. State · Correll v. Commonwealth

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Decided 1987-06-15

How this case has been cited

Cited by 90 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2005 · most notably Spencer v. Commonwealth (1990), State v. Tokar (1996)

17 federal appellate · 62 state decisions

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. Ohio;

¶2Sup. Ct. Va.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Va.;

¶4Ct. Common Pleas of York County, S. C.;

¶5Sup. Ct. Ga.; and

¶6Sup. Ct. Mo. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 86-6685, 28 Ohio St. 3d 451, 504 N. E. 2d 701; No. 86-6727, 232 Va. 454, 352 S. E. 2d 352; No. 86-6732, 232 Va. 266, 351 S. E. 2d 1; No. 86-6827, 256 Ga. 715, 352 S. E. 2d 762; No. 86-6903, 724 S. W. 2d 494.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶7dissenting.

¶8Adhering 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.