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Cartwright v. Oklahoma

497 U.S. 1015 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1990-06-25 Docket No. 89-5934 English

Judges with whom Justice Marshall

Decision Majority (1) · Brennan J.

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No. 89-5934.
Cartwright v. Oklahoma.

Ct. Crim. App. Okla. Certiorari denied.

with whom Justice Marshall

joins, concurring in part and dissenting in part.

I join the Court’s decision except insofar as the judgment, which is without prejudice to further sentencing proceedings, does not expressly preclude the reimposition of the death penalty. 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 , 227 (1976) (Brennan, J., dissenting), I would direct that the resentencing proceed

Concurring in part and dissenting in part — Brennan J.

p. 1016
ings be circumscribed such that the State may not reimpose the death sentence.

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