Supreme Court of the United States, 1981

Chaney v. Oklahoma

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided March 23, 1981 · Brennan, Marshall

450 U.S. 1025; 101 S. Ct. 1731; 49 U.S.L.W. 3711; 68 L. Ed. 2d 219; 1981 U.S. LEXIS 1448 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

Ct. Crim. App. Okla.;

Sup. Ct. Neb.;

Sup. Ct. Neb.; and

Sup. Ct.

N. C. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 80-947, 612 P. 2d 269; Nos. 80-1204 and 80-5862, 207 Neb. 51, 296 N. W. 2d 440; No. 80-6127, 301 N. C. 279, 271 S. E. 2d 286.

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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