Turner v. Virginia
451 U.S. 1011 | SCOTUS | 1981
Lead Opinion
Sup. Ct. Va.;
Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County; and
Sup. Ct. Ga. Cer-tiorari denied. Reported below: No. 80-6366, 221 Va. 513, 273 S. E. 2d 36; No. 80-6375, 247 Ga. 27, 277 S. E. 2d 1.
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.