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Spann v. South Carolina

466 U.S. 947 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1984-04-23 Docket No. 83-6226 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 947
No. 83-6226.
Spann v. South Carolina.

Appeal from Sup. Ct. S. C. dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of certiorari, certiorari denied.

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 sentence in this case.

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