No. 83-6421; No. 83-6453; No. 83-6490; No. 83-6610; No. 83-6625 | SCOTUS | May 21, 1984
Lead Opinion
Sup. Ct. Fla.;
Ct. Crim. App. Okla.;
Sup. Ct. Tenn.;
C. A. 4th Cir.; and
Sup. Ct. Mo. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 83-6421, 443 So. 2d 973" date_filed="1983-12-22" court="Fla." case_name="Clark v. State">443 So. 2d 973; No. 83-6490, 665 S.W.2d 87" date_filed="1984-01-23" court="Tenn." case_name="State v. Cone">665 S. W. 2d 87; No. 83-6610, 719 F.2d 58" date_filed="1983-10-03" court="4th Cir." case_name="Margie Bullard Barfield v. Kenneth W. Harris, Supt., N.C. Correctional Center for Women Rufus L. Edmisten, Attorney General of N.C.">719 F. 2d 58; No. 83-6625, 661 S.W.2d 526" date_filed="1983-11-22" court="Mo." case_name="State v. Laws">661 S. W. 2d 526.
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" date_filed="1976-07-22" court="SCOTUS" case_name="Gregg v. Georgia">428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.