Harris v. California
457 U.S. 1111 | SCOTUS | 1982
Ct. App. Cal., 2d App. Dist.;
Sup. Ct. Ga.; and
Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-6540, 248 Ga. 891, 287 S. E. 2d 180; No. 81-6549, 408 So. 2d 1024.
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.