Court Opinion

ID: 9432155
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:34:20.633854+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:17:25.792498
License: Public Domain

Justice Brennan,
with whom Justice Marshall
joins, concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I join the Court’s decision except insofar as 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) (Brennan, J., dissenting), I would direct that the resentencing proceed*1016ings be circumscribed such that the State may not reimpose the death sentence.