Supreme Court of the United States, 1986

Peek v. Kemp

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided November 3, 1986 · Brennan, Certiorari, Marshall, Set

479 U.S. 939; 107 S. Ct. 421; 55 U.S.L.W. 3316; 93 L. Ed. 2d 371; 1986 U.S. LEXIS 4608 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

C. A. 11th Cir. Certiorari denied.

Justice Blackmun would grant certiorari and set case for oral argument.

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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