Case ID: us_488/html/0901-04.html
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Author: {"author": "Justice Brennan, Justice Marshall,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 88-5276.
    McKenzie v. McCormick, Warden, et al.
   C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.

Justice Kennedy took no part in the consideration or decision of this petition.

Justice Brennan,

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

Justice Marshall,

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) (Marshall, J., dissenting), I would grant the petition for writ of certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case. But even if I believed that the death penalty could be constitutionally imposed under certain circumstances, I would grant the petition and vacate petitioner’s death sentence for the reasons I expressed in McKenzie v. Montana, 449 U. S. 1050 (1980) (Marshall, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari).