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Pickens, aka Coakley v. Arkansas

Supreme Court of the United States1978-02-27No. No. 77-5735
435 U.S. 909

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Opinion

majority opinion

Sup. Ct. Ark. Certiorari denied.

dissent opinion

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall,

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.