JACKSON
v.
FLORIDA; WESTBROOK V. GEORGIA

U.S. | 1979-01-08
Nos. 78-5533; No. 78-5763
439 U.S. 1102 Supreme Court of the United States (1979) Caution
Cited by 42 cases
Dissent
Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall,

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall,

dissenting.

Adhering 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.

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