Court Opinion

ID: 9426717
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:18:46.019057+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:02.097323
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Brennan.
I agree for the reasons stated in the plurality opinion that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a defendant facing a death sentence is not informed of the contents of a presentence investigation report made to the sentencing judge. However, I adhere to my *365view 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) (Brennan, J., dissenting). I therefore would vacate the death sentence, and I dissent from the Court’s judgment insofar as it remands for further proceedings that could lead to its imposition.