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Zettlemoyer v. Pennsylvania

461 U.S. 970 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1983-05-31 Docket No. 82-6514; No. 82-6556 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 970
No. 82-6514.
Zettlemoyer v. Pennsylvania.

Sup. Ct. Pa.; and

Dissent — Brennan J.

p. 971
Gretzler v. Arizona.

No. 82-6556.

Sup. Ct. Ariz. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 82-6514, 500 Pa. 16 , 454 A. 2d 937 ; No. 82-6556, 135 Ariz. 42 , 659 P. 2d 1 .

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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