Godfrey v. Georgia

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Godfrey v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 20, 1980
Decided May 19, 1980
Full case name: Godfrey v. The State of Georgia
Citations: 446 U.S. 420
Holding
The Court reversed the judgment insofar as it leaves standing the death sentences, and the case was remanded.
Court membership
Chief Justice: Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Potter Stewart, Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell, Jr., William Rehnquist, John Paul Stevens
Case opinions
Majority by: Stewart
Joined by: Blackmun, Powell, Stevens
Concurrence by: Marshall
Concurrence by: Brennan
Dissent by: Burger
Dissent by: White
Joined by: Rehnquist

Godfrey v. Georgia 446 U.S. 420 (1980) is a United States Supreme Court case [1] in which the Court overturned a death sentence based upon a finding that a murder was "outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible, and inhuman," as it deemed that any murder may be reasonably characterized in this manner.

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