MARTIN
v.
WAINWRIGHT, SECRETARY, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

U.S. | 1986-10-14
No. 85-7204
Justice Blackmun would grant the petition for writ of certiorari limited to Question 1 presented by the petition.
479 U.S. 909 Supreme Court of the United States (1986) Negative 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 sentence in this case.


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