430 U.S. 704
Docket No. 76-5382
Supreme Court of the United States
April 19, 1977
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1977-04-19
Relies on Vorchheimer v. School Dist. of Philadelphia
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Petition denied / appeal dismissed · 7–2 · Opinion by Per Curiam · Decided 1977-04-19
Cited by 68 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2000 · most notably Darden v. Wainwright (1986), Dugger v. Adams (1989)
3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
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On Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Florida.
April 19, 1977. PER CURIAM.
The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.
Mr. Justice BRENNAN, with whom Mr. Justice MARSHALL joins, dissents and, adhering to his view that capital punishment is in all circumstances prohibited as cruel and unusual punishment by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments would set aside the death sentence imposed in this case.