Jump to content

Watkins v. Murray/Dissent Brennan

From Wikisource
654552Watkins v. Murray — Dissenting OpinionWilliam J. Brennan, Jr.
Court Documents
Case Syllabus
Opinion of the Court
Dissenting Opinions
Brennan
Marshall


Justice BRENNAN, dissenting.

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, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 2950, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976), I would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

Notes

[edit]

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse