Shaw v. South Carolina

444 U.S. 957 | SCOTUS | 1979

Lead Opinion

Sup. Ct. S. C.;

Sup. Ct. Ga.; and

Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 79-5247, 273 S. C. 194, 255 S. E. 2d 799; No. 79-5376, 243 Ga. 820, 256 S. E. 2d 907.

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Dissenting Opinion

Mr. Justice Brennan,

dissenting.

Adhering to my 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 (1976), I would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.