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Stewart v. Massachusetts

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Stewart v. Massachusetts (1972)
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4660174Stewart v. Massachusetts — Syllabus1972

Supreme Court of the United States

408 U.S. 845

Stewart  v.  Massachusetts

Appeal from the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

No. 71-5446.  Argued: N/A --- Decided: June 29, 1972

Imposition and carrying out of death penalty in this case held to constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. Furman v. Georgia, ante, p. 238.

— Mass —, 270 N.E. 2d 811, vacated and remanded.


PER CURIAM.