HILL
v.
FLORIDA; RICHARDSON V. ALABAMA; STOKES V. MISSOURI

U.S. | 1983-02-28
Nos. 82-5977; No. 82-5987; No. 82-5989
460 U.S. 1017 Supreme Court of the United States (1983) Positive Treatment
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Dissent
Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

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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    …take the gun from him. The subsequent shots followed quickly and do not show any heightened premeditation, calculation, or planning. See Richardson v. State, 437 So. 2d 1091 (Fla.1983). Compare Hill v. State, 422 So. 2d 816 (Fla.1982), cert. denied, 460 U.S. 1017, 103 S.Ct. 1262, 75 L.Ed.2d 488 (1983). The- trial court found no mitigating factors. The defense presented no evidence in mitigation, and specifically waived the mitigating circumstance of no significant history of prior criminal activity; the def…
  • Mills v. State, 462 So. 2d 1075 (Fla. 1985)
    …pport of the death sentence contain sufficient, distinct proof of each aggravating factor. Squires v. State, 450 So. 2d 208 (Fla.), cert. denied, — U.S. -, 105 S.Ct. 268, 83 L.Ed.2d 204 (1984); Hill v. State, 422 So. 2d 816 (Fla.1982), cert. denied, 460 U.S. 1017, 103 S.Ct. 1262, 75 L.Ed.2d 488 (1983). The findings of fact set out the proof necessary to establish the victim’s mental anguish for the aggravating circumstance of heinous, atrocious, or cruel, while also containing sufficient, distinct facts to d…
  • Stano v. State, 460 So. 2d 890 (Fla. 1984)
    …725 (1984). The facts of these cases support both of these aggravating circumstances. See Squires v. State, 450 So. 2d 208 (Fla.), cert. denied, — U.S. —, 105 S.Ct. 268, 83 L.Ed.2d 204 (1984); Hill v. State, 422 So. 2d 816 (Fla.1982), cert. denied, 460 U.S. 1017, 103 S.Ct. 1262, 75 L.Ed.2d 488 (1983). These two circumstances have not been improperly doubled up, and we find no merit to this argument. In these sentencing orders the trial court, relying on Sireci v. State, 399 So. 2d 964 (Fla.1981), cert. den…

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