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In re Williams

449 U.S. 991 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1980-11-17 Docket No. 80-5385 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 991
No. 80-5385.
In re Williams.

Petition for writ of ha-beas corpus denied.

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 vacate the death sentence in this case.

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