Cervi v. Georgia
456 U.S. 938 | SCOTUS | 1982
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
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.