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Swindler v. Arkansas

449 U.S. 1057 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1980-12-08 Docket No. 80-5488; No. 80-5602 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1057
No. 80-5488.
No. 80-5602.
Swindler v. Arkansas. Davis v. Georgia et al.

Sup. Ct. Ark.; and

Sup. Ct. Ga. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 80-5488, 267 Ark. 418 , 592 S. W. 2d 91 ; No. 80-5602, 246 Ga. 200 , 269 S. E. 2d 461 .

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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