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Delong v. Thompson

Delong v. Thompson, Warden Hamm v. Alabama

Delong v. Thompson, 498 U.S. 1008 (1990)
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Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided
December 3, 1990
Docket
Nos. 90-5948; No. 90-5969
Judges
Marshall
Citations
498 U.S. 1008

Opinion of the Court

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Sup. Ct. Va.; and Sup. Ct. Ala. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 90-5969, 564 So. 2d 469 .

Dissent — Marshall

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Justice Marshall,

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, 231 (1976), I would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.

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Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976) 6,081
Ex Parte Hamm, 564 So. 2d 469 (Ala. 1990) 29

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