Supreme Court of the United States, 2017

Reed v. Louisiana

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided February 27, 2017 · Breyer, Certiorari, From

137 S. Ct. 787; 197 L. Ed. 2d 258; 85 U.S.L.W. 3409; 2017 WL 738127; 2017 U.S. LEXIS 1430 (Supreme Court Reporter)

Counsel

The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

Cases that cite this one

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

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United States v. Aquart (2d Cir. 2018)
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State of Louisiana v. Antoine Denton (La. Ct. App. 2023)
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State of Louisiana v. Freddy Lee Williams (La. Ct. App. 2021)
State Of Louisiana v. Jason Matthew Magee (La. Ct. App. 2020)
State Of Louisiana v. Brhian Thomas (La. Ct. App. 2020)
State v. Williams (La. Ct. App. 2019)
State v. Williams (La. Ct. App. 2019)
State v. Turner (La. Ct. App. 2019)
State v. Turner (La. Ct. App. 2019)
State v. Cohen (La. Ct. App. 2019)

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Opinion of the Court

Justice BREYER, dissenting from the denial of certiorari.

Marcus Dante Reed was sentenced to death in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, a county that in recent history has apparently sentenced more people to death per capita than any other county in the United States. See Aviv, Revenge Killing: Race and the Death Penalty in a Louisiana Parish, The New Yorker, July 6 & 13, 2015, p. 34. The arbitrary role that geography plays in the imposition of the death penalty, along with the other serious problems I have previously described, has led me to conclude that the Court should consider the basic question of the death penalty's constitutionality. See Glossip v. Gross, 576 U.S. ----, 135 S.Ct. 2726, 192 L.Ed.2d 761 (2015) (BREYER, J., dissenting). For this reason, I would grant Reed's petition for a writ of certiorari.

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