Thigpen v. Alabama
444 U.S. 1026
SCOTUS
1980
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Lead Opinion

Ct. Crim. App. Ala.; and

Sup. Ct. S. C. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 79-5552, 372 So. 2d 385; No. 79-5632, 273 S. C. 194, 255 S. E. 2d 799.





Dissenting Opinion

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. 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.