Court Opinion

ID: 9431342
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:32:04.989455+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:27.988878
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*591Justice Brennan,
with whom Justice Marshall joins, concurring.
I join the Court’s opinion 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), I would direct that the resentenc-ing proceedings be circumscribed such that the State may not reimpose the death sentence.