Court Opinion

ID: 9602077
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:51:41.172672+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:13:33.398330
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Gunter, Justice,
dissenting.
I dissent from the judgment of the court on the ground that the present Georgia statutes authorizing the imposition of the death penalty establish a "discretionary system” as opposed to a "mandatory system” for imposing the death penalty, and such statutes are, in my judgment, unconstitutional pursuant to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U. S. 238 (92 SC 2726, 33 LE2d 346). My views in this regard are set forth in the concurring part of my concurring and dissenting opinion in Coley v. State, *149231 Ga. 829.
I respectfully dissent.