Cervi v. Georgia, 456 U.S. 938

Cervi v. Georgia

456 U.S. 938

SCOTUS

1982

Check Treatment

Lead Opinion

Sup. Ct. Ga.;

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County;

Sup. Ct. S. C.;

Sup. Ct. Ark.; and

Sup. Ct. Va. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-6081, 248 Ga. 325, 282 S. E. 2d 629; No. 81-6156, 629 S. W. 2d 701; No. 81-6235, 278 S. C. 1, 292 S. E. 2d 581; No. 81-6245, 274 Ark. 126, 623 S. W. 2d 180; No. 81-6353, 222 Va. 844, 284 S. E. 2d 844.

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.