Compton v. New Mexico
479 U.S. 890
SCOTUS
1986
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Lead Opinion

Sup. Ct. N. M.;

Sup. Ct. Fla.;

Ct. App. Md.; and

Sup. Ct. Ga. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-6753, 104 N. M. 683, *891726 P. 2d 837; No. 85-7122, 483 So. 2d 424; No. 86-5021, 306 Md. 120, 507 A. 2d 1072.





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.