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Mulligan v. Zant

454 U.S. 1068 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1981-11-16 Docket No. 81-5407; No. 81-5483 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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No. 81-5407.
No. 81-5483.
Mulligan v. Zant, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center. Woodard v. Arkansas.

Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County; and

Sup. Ct. Ark. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-5483, 273 Ark. 235 , 617 S. W. 2d 861 .

dissenting.

Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the

Dissent — Brennan J.

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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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