Blanks v. Georgia

475 U.S. 1090 | SCOTUS | 1986

Lead Opinion

Sup. Ct. Ga.;

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

Super. Ct. Ga., Houston County;

Sup. Ct. Ga.;

Sup. Ct. Fla.;

Ct. Crim. App. Tenn.; and

Sup. Ct. Ill. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-5375, 254 Ga. 420, 330 S. E. 2d 575; No. 85-6145, 697 S. W. 2d 404; No. 85-6259, 255 Ga. 215, 336 S. E. 2d 762; No. 85-6268, 475 So. 2d 1228; No. 85-6275, 109 Ill. 2d 19, 485 N. E. 2d 363.

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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.