Dugger v. Adams

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1989-04-17

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*412 Justice Blackmun, with whom Justice Brennan, Justice Marshall, and Justice Stevens join, dissenting. Although this Court repeatedly has ruled that the Eighth Amendment prohibits the arbitrary or capricious imposition of the death penalty, 1 the Court today itself arbitrarily im *41…

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