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GEORGIA; WHITE V. TEXAS; FRANKLIN V. ZANT, SUPERINTENDENT, GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION CENTER; THOMPSON V. SOUTH CAROLINA; SINGLETON V. ARKANSAS; BASSETT V. VIRGINIA
CERVI
GEORGIA; WHITE V. TEXAS; FRANKLIN V. ZANT, SUPERINTENDENT, GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION CENTER; THOMPSON V. SOUTH CAROLINA; SINGLETON V. ARKANSAS; BASSETT V. VIRGINIA
456 U.S. 938
Supreme Court of the United States (1982)
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Dissent
Justice Brennan and 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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Franklin v. Francis, 720 F.2d 1206 (11th Cir. 1983)…us in the Superior Court of Butts County. The petition was denied in an unreported order, and the Georgia Supreme Court declined to grant a certificate of probable cause to appeal. The United States Supreme Court denied certiorari. Franklin v. Zant, 456 U.S. 938, 102 S.Ct. 1995, 72 L.Ed.2d 458 (1982). Franklin then petitioned the district court for a writ of habeas corpus. The district court denied his petition, without an evidentiary hearing, and Franklin took this appeal. Franklin’s petition alleged that…
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Bassette v. Thompson, 915 F.2d 932 (4th Cir. 1990)…d his conviction without success to the Supreme Court of Virginia, see Bassette v. Commonwealth, 222 Va. 844, 284 S.E. 2d 844 (1981). He was also unsuccessful with his petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, Bassette v. Virginia, 456 U.S. 938, 102 S.Ct. 1996, 72 L.Ed.2d 458 (1982). He petitioned for habe-as corpus in the Virginia state courts, and after four days of hearings and the taking of extensive testimony, the Circuit Court of Henrico County denied the petition in a lengthy opinio…
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- Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (U.S. 1976)