Collins v. Arkansas

Mr. Justice Marshall,

dissenting.

Because I consider the death penalty to be a cruel and unusual punishment forbidden by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, see Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 231 (1976) (Marshall, J., dissenting), I would grant certiorari in these cases and vacate the judgments insofar as they leave undisturbed the sentences of death.