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Lindsey v. Alabama

470 U.S. 1023 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1985-02-25 Docket No. 84-5969 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1023
No. 84-5969.
Lindsey v. Alabama.

Sup. Ct. Ala. Certio-rari denied. Justice Marshall would grant certiorari.

dissenting.

Adhering to my view 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 ,

Dissent — Brennan J.

p. 1024
227 (1976), I would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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