Court Opinion

ID: 9431327
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:32:00.760286+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:53.098620
License: Public Domain

Justice Brennan,
concurring.
I join the Court’s opinion and agree fully with its analysis as to why, under our current death penalty jurisprudence, the death sentence in this case must be vacated. I write separately only because the judgment, which is without prejudice to further sentencing proceedings, does not expressly preclude the reimposition of the death penalty. 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 direct that the resentencing proceedings be circumscribed such that the State may not reimpose the death sentence.