WASHINGTON
v.
MISSISSIPPI; FINNEY V. GEORGIA
WASHINGTON
MISSISSIPPI; FINNEY V. GEORGIA
441 U.S. 916
Supreme Court of the United States (1979)
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Dissent
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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- Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (U.S. 1976)