Clark v. Virginia

444 U.S. 1049 | SCOTUS | 1980

Lead Opinion

Sup. Ct. Va.; and

Sup. Ct. Ariz. Cer-tiorari denied. Reported below: No. 79-5704, 219 Va. 237, 257 S. E. 2d 784; No. 79-5722, 123 Ariz. 335, 599 P. 2d 788.

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Dissenting Opinion

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. 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.