Case Name: Marcus Dante REED v. LOUISIANA.
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2017-02-27
Citations: 137 S. Ct. 787
Docket Number: No. 16–656.
Parties: Marcus Dante REED
v.
LOUISIANA.
Judges: 
Reporter: Supreme Court Reporter
Volume: 137
Pages: 787–787

Head Matter:
Marcus Dante REED
v.
LOUISIANA.
No. 16-656.
Supreme Court of the United States
Feb. 27, 2017.
The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.

Opinion:
Justice BREYER, dissenting from the denial of certiorari.
Marcus Dante Reed was sentenced to death in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, a county that in recent history has apparently sentenced more people to death per capita than any other county in the United States. See Aviv, Revenge Killing: Race and the Death Penalty in a Louisiana Parish, The New Yorker, July 6 & 13, 2015, p. 34. The arbitrary role that geography plays in the imposition of the death penalty, along with the other serious problems I have previously described, has led me to conclude that the Court should consider the basic question of the death penalty's constitutionality. See Glossip v. Gross, 576 U.S. -, 135 S.Ct. 2726, 192 L.Ed.2d 761 (2015) (BREYER, J., dissenting). For this reason, I would grant Reed's petition for a writ of certiorari.