Gregg v. Georgia

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
gptkbp:arguedDate 1976-04-01
1976-03-31
gptkbp:category United States death penalty case law
1976 in United States case law
gptkbp:citation gptkb:428_U.S._153
gptkbp:concurringOpinionBy gptkb:Byron_White
gptkb:Thurgood_Marshall
gptkb:William_Rehnquist
gptkb:John_Paul_Stevens
gptkb:Warren_E._Burger
gptkb:William_J._Brennan,_Jr.
gptkb:Harry_Blackmun
gptkb:Lewis_F._Powell,_Jr.
gptkbp:date 1976-07-02
gptkbp:decidedBy gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
gptkbp:dissentingOpinionBy gptkb:Thurgood_Marshall
gptkb:William_J._Brennan,_Jr.
gptkbp:docketNumber 74-6257
gptkbp:effect upheld guided discretion statutes for death penalty
reinstated the death penalty in the United States
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Troy_Leon_Gregg_v._State_of_Georgia
gptkbp:heldBy The death penalty does not violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments under all circumstances.
The Georgia death penalty statute is constitutional.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Gregg v. Georgia
gptkbp:involvedState gptkb:Georgia
gptkbp:joinedBy gptkb:Byron_White
gptkb:Thurgood_Marshall
gptkb:William_Rehnquist
gptkb:John_Paul_Stevens
gptkb:Warren_E._Burger
gptkb:William_J._Brennan,_Jr.
gptkb:Harry_Blackmun
gptkb:Lewis_F._Powell,_Jr.
gptkbp:legalCitation 428 U.S. 153 (1976)
gptkbp:majorityOpinionBy gptkb:Potter_Stewart
gptkbp:overruledBy Furman v. Georgia (in part)
gptkbp:partOf 1976 Supreme Court death penalty cases
gptkbp:petitioner gptkb:Troy_Leon_Gregg
gptkbp:predecessor resumption of the death penalty in the United States
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Jurek_v._Texas
gptkb:Proffitt_v._Florida
gptkb:Roberts_v._Louisiana
gptkb:Woodson_v._North_Carolina
gptkb:Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
gptkb:Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
capital punishment in the United States
gptkbp:response gptkb:State_of_Georgia
gptkbp:subject constitutionality of the death penalty
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Warren_Burger
gptkb:Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5