Gregg v. Georgia, No. 74-6257 (U.S. Supreme Court) (428 U.S. 153; 96 S.Ct. 2909) (July 2, 1976) (Judge Various)
This decision, noted for the intensity of the debate about the validity of the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment, consisted of a series of plurality decisions one of which held that the death penalty does not always violate the 8th Amendment.
In this case, the Supreme Court upheld a ...
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