FURMAN

v.

GEORGIA; JACKSON V. GEORGIA; BRANCH V. TEXAS

Citator

Cited By

• Sweetser v. State, 258 So. 2d 287 (Fla. 3d DCA 1972)
  …at is why I had written out death occurred due to traumatic injuries of the head and neck which killed the individual.” . Vacated on other grounds, 392 U.S. 298, 88 S.Ct. 2067, 20 L.Ed.2d 1116 (1968) after remand Fla.1968, 215 So. 2d 611, cert. gr. 403 U.S. 952, 91 S.Ct. 2279, 29 L.Ed.2d 863 (June 28, 1971).…
• Furman v. Georgia, 408 U.S. 238 (U.S. 1972)
  …Mr. Justice Powell, with whom The Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Blackmun, and Mr. Justice Rehnquist join, dissenting. The Court granted certiorari in these cases to consider whether the death penalty is any longer a permissible form of punishment. 403 U. S. 952 (1971). It is the judgment of five Justices that the death penalty, as customarily prescribed and implemented in this country today, offends the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments. The reasons for that judgment are stat…

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• United States ex rel. Frank Phelan v. Brierley, 453 F.2d 73 (3d Cir. 1971)
  …Eighth Amendment. We do note, however, that the Supreme Court recently has granted certiorari in four cases where the issue is whether, on the facts of each case, the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. See Aikens v. California, 403 U.S. 952, 91 S.Ct. 2280, 29 L.Ed.2d 863, Furman v. Georgia, 403 U.S. 952, 91 S.Ct. 2282, 29 L.Ed.2d 863, Jackson v. Georgia, 403 U.S. 952, 91 S. Ct. 2287, 29 L.Ed.2d 863, Branch v. Texas, 403 U.S. 952, 91 S.Ct. 2287, 29 L.Ed.2d 864 (1971).…

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