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Clark v. Virginia

444 U.S. 1049 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1980-01-21 Docket No. 79-5704; No. 79-5722 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1049
No. 79-5704.
No. 79-5722.
Clark v. Virginia. Carriger v. Arizona.

Sup. Ct. Va.; and

Sup. Ct. Ariz. Cer-tiorari denied. Reported below: No. 79-5704, 219 Va. 237 , 257 S. E. 2d 784 ; No. 79-5722, 123 Ariz. 335 , 599 P. 2d 788 .

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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