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Tucker v. Zant

454 U.S. 1022 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1981-11-02 Docket No. 81-5107; No. 81-5338 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1022
No. 81-5107.
No. 81-5338.
Tucker v. Zant, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center. Straight v. Florida.

Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County; and

Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-5338, 397 So. 2d 903 .

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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