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Delong v. Thompson

498 U.S. 1008 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1990-12-03 Docket No. 90-5948; No. 90-5969 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Marshall J.

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p. 1008
No. 90-5948.
No. 90-5969.
Delong v. Thompson, Warden. Hamm v. Alabama.

Sup. Ct. Va.; and Sup. Ct. Ala. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 90-5969, 564 So. 2d 469 .

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 , 231 (1976), I would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.

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