Supreme Court of the United States, 1980

In re Williams

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided November 17, 1980 · Brennan, Marshall

449 U.S. 991; 101 S. Ct. 546; 49 U.S.L.W. 3372; 66 L. Ed. 2d 301; 1980 U.S. LEXIS 3970 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

Petition for writ of ha-beas corpus denied.

Dissenting Opinion

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 vacate the death sentence in this case.

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