Smith v. Kentucky

484 U.S. 1036 | SCOTUS | 1988

Lead Opinion

Sup. Ct. Ky.;

C. A. 4th Cir.;

Sup. Ct. Ind.;

Sup. Ct. Va.;

Ct. Crim. App. Okla.;

Ct. Crim. App. Okla.; and

No. 87-6002.

Sup. Ct. Ohio. Certiorari denied.

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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.