SHAW
v.
SOUTH CAROLINA; JONES V. GEORGIA; SPIVEY V. ZANT, WARDEN
SHAW
SOUTH CAROLINA; JONES V. GEORGIA; SPIVEY V. ZANT, WARDEN
444 U.S. 957
Supreme Court of the United States (1979)
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Dissent
Mr. Justice Brennan,
dissenting.
Adhering to my 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 (1976), I 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)