Supreme Court of the United States, 1981

Mulligan v. Zant

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided November 16, 1981 · Brennan, Marshall

454 U.S. 1068; 102 S. Ct. 618; 70 L. Ed. 2d 603; 50 U.S.L.W. 3403; 1981 U.S. LEXIS 4598 (United States Reports)

Cases that cite this one

5 later published cases cite this decision.

Joseph Mulligan v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Respondent (11th Cir. 1985)
Billy Woodard v. Willis Sargent, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction (8th Cir. 1987)
Billy Junior Woodard v. Willis Sargent, Warden, Cummins Unit, Arkansas Department of Correction (8th Cir. 1985)
Cotton v. State (Ark. 1987)
State Ex Rel. Juvenile Department v. Gibson (Or. Ct. App. 1986)

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Opinion of the Court

Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County; and

Sup. Ct. Ark. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-5483, 273 Ark. 235, 617 S. W. 2d 861.

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 *1069Eighth 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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