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Roberts v. Missouri

479 U.S. 946 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1986-11-03 Docket No. 86-5310; No. 86-5482 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 946
No. 86-5310.
No. 86-5482.
Roberts v. Missouri. Marlowe v. Kentucky.

Sup. Ct. Mo.; and

Sup. Ct. Ky. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 86-5310, 709 S. W. 2d 857 ; No. 86-5482, 709 S. W. 2d 424 .

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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