Supreme Court of the United States, 1978

Pickens v. Arkansas

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided February 27, 1978 · No. 77-5735 · Brennan, Marshall

435 U.S. 909; 98 S. Ct. 1459 (United States Reports)

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1 later published case cites this decision.

Pickens v. Lockhart (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas 1982)

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Dissenting Opinion

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 sentence in this case.

Opinion of the Court

Sup. Ct. Ark. Certiorari denied.

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