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Moore v. Georgia

439 U.S. 903 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1978-10-10 Docket No. 78-5159; No. 78-5240 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 903
No. 78-5159.
No. 78-5240.
Moore v. Georgia. Hughes v. Texas.

Sup. Ct. Ga.; and

Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 78-5159, 240 Ga. 807 , 243 S. E. 2d 1 ; No. 78-5240, 562 S. W. 2d 857 .

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.

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