Riley v. Delaware
478 U.S. 1022
SCOTUS
1986
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Lead Opinion

Sup. Ct. Del.;

C. A. 11th Cir.;

Ct. Common Pleas S. C., Berkeley County;

Sup. Ct. Ill.;

Sup. Ct. Ga.; and

C. A. 4th Cir. Cer-tiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-5451, 496 A. 2d 997; No. 85-6447, 776 F. 2d 1487; No. 85-6748, 109 Ill. 2d 391, *1023488 N. E. 2d 255; No. 85-6818, 255 Ga. 380, 338 S. E. 2d 669; No. 85-6834, 783 F. 2d 401.





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.