Court Opinion

ID: 9475715
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 05:36:28.292854+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:44:53.602735
License: Public Domain

BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I join the court’s opinion because it is in accord with binding Supreme Court precedent. I recognize that I am bound by that precedent which upholds the constitutional validity of the death penalty. If I were free to decide the issue, I would agree with Justice Brennan’s view that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment forbidden by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. See Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 227, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 2971, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976) (Brennan, J., dissenting), and at 231, 96 S.Ct. at 2973 (Marshall, J., dissenting).