Supreme Court of the United States, 1984

Spann v. South Carolina

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided April 23, 1984 · Brennan, Marshall

466 U.S. 947; 104 S. Ct. 2146; 80 L. Ed. 2d 533; 52 U.S.L.W. 3775; 1984 U.S. LEXIS 1923 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

Appeal from Sup. Ct. S. C. dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of certiorari, certiorari 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 grant certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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