Wilkerson v. Utah
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| Wilkerson v. Utah | ||||||||||
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| Utah Territory court's sentence of death by firing squad was not cruel and unusual punishment, Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah affirmed. | ||||||||||
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| Chief Justice: Morrison Waite Associate Justices: Nathan Clifford, Noah Haynes Swayne, Samuel Freeman Miller, Stephen Johnson Field, William Strong, Joseph Philo Bradley, Ward Hunt, John Marshall Harlan |
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| Majority by: Nathan Clifford |
Wilkerson v. Utah 99 U.S. 130 (1878) is a United States Supreme Court case [1] in which the Court affirmed the judgement of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah in stating that death by firing squad, as prescribed by the Utah territorial statute, was not cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment.
