Supreme Court of the United States, 1980

Swindler v. Arkansas

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided December 8, 1980 · Brennan, Marshall

449 U.S. 1057; 101 S. Ct. 631 (United States Reports)

Cases that cite this one

2 later published cases cite this decision.

Swindler v. Lockhart (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas 1990)
Swindler v. Lockhart (United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas 1988)

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Opinion of the Court

Sup. Ct. Ark.; and

Sup. Ct. Ga. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 80-5488, 267 Ark. 418, 592 S. W. 2d 91; No. 80-5602, 246 Ga. 200, 269 S. E. 2d 461.

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 grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.

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