Case ID: us_444/html/0957-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Brennan,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 79-5247.
    No. 79-5376.
    No. 79-5395.
    Shaw v. South Carolina. Jones v. Georgia. Spivey v. Zant, Warden.
   Sup. Ct. S. C.;

Sup. Ct. Ga.; and

Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 79-5247, 273 S. C. 194, 255 S. E. 2d 799; No. 79-5376, 243 Ga. 820, 256 S. E. 2d 907.

Mr. Justice Brennan,

dissenting.

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