Supreme Court of the United States, 1984

Levasseur v. Wainwright

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided January 9, 1984 · Brennan, Marshall

464 U.S. 1063; 104 S. Ct. 745 (United States Reports)

Cases that cite this one

103 later published cases cite this decision. The 25 that cite it most often are listed here.

Robert Glen Coe, Petitioner-Appellee/cross-Appellant v. Ricky Bell, Warden, Respondent-Appellant/cross-Appellee (6th Cir. 1999)
Warren McCleskey Cross-Appellant v. Ralph Kemp, Warden, Cross-Appellee (11th Cir. 1985)
James Adams v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections (11th Cir. 1984)
Bryant v. State (Ala. Crim. App. 2003)
Coe v. State (Tenn. 2000)
Melson v. State (Ala. Crim. App. 1999)
State v. Cauthern (Tenn. 1998)
Bush v. State (Ala. Crim. App. 1996)
United States v. William James Thigpen, United States of America v. Herman Campbell Barnett, Jr. (11th Cir. 1993)
Edgar v. State (Ala. Crim. App. 1993)
Ex Parte Wilson (Ala. 1990)
Anthony Bertolotti v. Richard Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections (11th Cir. 1989)
State v. Gorman (Md. 1989)
Larry Eugene Mann v. Richard L. Dugger, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections (11th Cir. 1987)
State v. Mallett (Mo. 1987)
Ex Parte Ford (Ala. 1987)
In re Ford v. State (Ala. 1987)
Ritter v. Thigpen (United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama 1987)
Ford v. State (Ala. Crim. App. 1986)
James Ernest Hitchcock v. Louie L. Wainwright (11th Cir. 1985)
Carl Albert Collins v. A.L. Lockhart, Director of the Arkansas Department of Correction (8th Cir. 1985)
Ex Parte Kennedy (Ala. 1985)
Wimbley v. State (Ala. Crim. App. 2014)
Lewis v. State (Ala. Crim. App. 2007)
Irvin v. State (Ala. Crim. App. 2005)

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Opinion of the Court

Sup. Ct. Va.;

Sup. Ct. Ala.;

C. A. 11th Cir.; and

Sup. Ct. Tenn. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 83-5670, 225 Va. 564, 304 S. E. 2d 644; No. 83-5695, 435 So. 2d 1351; No. 83-5701, 709 F. 2d 1443; No. 83-5705, 655 S. W. 2d 903.

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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