Court Opinion

ID: 9430092
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:28:55.612968+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:22.942740
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Justice Brennan,
dissenting.
I adhere 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), and would therefore vacate the petitioner Brian Keith Baldwin’s death sentence in any event. But even if I thought otherwise, I would vacate Baldwin’s death sentence imposed pursuant to Ala. Code §§ 13-ll-2(a) and 13-11-4 (1975) for the reasons set forth in Justice Stevens’ dissent, which I join.