Gregg v georgia outcome. 153 1976 reaffirmed the united states supreme courts acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the united states upholding in particular the death sentence imposed on troy leon greggreferred to by a leading scholar as the july 2 cases and elsewhere referred to by the. Georgia 1976 summary in 1972 the supreme court ruled that the death penalty systems then in place were unconstitutional violations of the eighth amendments prohibition on cruel and unusual punishments. The georgia state supreme court set aside the death penalty for armed robbery but upheld the sentence for murder.
A jury imposed the death sentence on gregg defendant after finding him guilty on charges of armed robbery and murder. Brennan april 25 1906 july 24 1997 was a lawyer and one of the longest serving justices in supreme court history 1956 1990. Brennan authored many landmark opinions protecting individual freedoms.
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Georgia 1976 the court reaffirmed. Troy gregg after being convicted in the lower georgia courts and sentenced to death appealed his case to the supreme court. I would set aside the death sentences imposed in those cases as violative of the eighth and fourteenth amendments.
Supreme court granted certiorari. Some observers had predicted that the courts earlier ruling in furman v. Statement of the facts.
On appeal the georgia supreme court affirmed except as to the imposition of a death sentence on robbery charges. Georgia proffitt vflorida jurek vtexas woodson vnorth carolina and roberts vlouisiana 428 us. Petitioner was charged with committing armed robbery and murder on the basis of evidence that he had killed and robbed two men.
Texas insofar as each upholds the death sentences challenged in those cases. 2d 859 1976 brief fact summary. At the trial stage of georgias bifurcated procedure the jury found petitioner guilty of two counts of armed robbery and two counts of.
Petitioner was sentenced to death for armed robbery and murder of two men in georgia. Justice stewart delivered the plurality opinion in gregg v. March 31 1976 decided.
Synopsis of rule of law. Once the verdict was read a penalty hearing was conducted before the same jury resulting in the imposition of the death penalty. Gregg was convicted of robbing and murdering two men.
Supreme courts ruling in gregg vgeorgia which involved a prosecution for a double murder committed in the course of a robberyrejected the legal argument that capital punishment in and of itself constituted cruel and unusual punishment and thus violated the eighth amendment of the us.
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