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Pickens v. Arkansas

451 U.S. 964 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1981-04-27 Docket No. 80-6299; No. 80-6369 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 964
No. 80-6299.
No. 80-6369.
Pickens v. Arkansas. Peek v. Florida.

Sup. Ct. Ark.; and

Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 80-6369, 395 So. 2d 492 .

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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