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Williams v. Indiana

459 U.S. 808 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1982-10-04 Docket No. 81-6779 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 808
No. 81-6779.
Williams v. Indiana.

Appeal from Sup. Ct. Ind. dismissed for want of substantial federal question.

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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