Peterkin v. Pennsylvania
479 U.S. 1070 | SCOTUS | 1987
Lead Opinion
Sup. Ct. Pa.;
Sup. Ct. Ky.;
Sup. Ct. Ga.; and
Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 86-5819, 511 Pa. 299, 513 A. 2d 373; No. 86-5833, 712 S. W. 2d 932; No. 86-5901, 256 Ga. 292, 348 S. E. 2d 451; No. 86-6061, 716 S. W. 2d 519.
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.