486 U.S. 1046
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 6, 1988
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1988-06-06
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · 119 Ill. 2d 69 - People v. Foster · James v. Butler
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Decided 1988-06-06
Cited by 111 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2014 · most notably United States v. Terry (1990), United States v. Davis (1991)
45 federal appellate · 4 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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¶2Ct. App. Mo., Eastern Dist.; and
¶3Sup. Ct. Ill. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 87-6233, 827 F. 2d 1006; No. 87-6869, 741 S. W. 2d 771; No. 87-6905, 119 Ill. 2d 69, 518 N. E. 2d 82.
¶4dissenting.
¶5Adhering 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.