Supreme Court of the United States, 1982

Strickland v. Zant

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided October 18, 1982 · Brennan, Marshall

459 U.S. 960; 103 S. Ct. 274; 51 U.S.L.W. 3304; 74 L. Ed. 2d 213; 1982 U.S. LEXIS 4049 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County; and

Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 82-5305, 413 So. 2d 741.

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 *961Eighth 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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