Supreme Court of the United States, 1986

Keeten v. Garrison

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided May 27, 1986 · Brennan, Marshall

476 U.S. 1145; 106 S. Ct. 2258; 54 U.S.L.W. 3777; 90 L. Ed. 2d 702; 1986 U.S. LEXIS 1483 (United States Reports)

Dissenting Opinion

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

dissenting as to petitioner Larry Darnell Williams.

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.

Opinion of the Court

C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied.

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