Pulley v. Harris
| Pulley v. Harris | |||||||
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| Argued November 7, 1983 Decided January 23, 1984 | |||||||
| Full case name | Pulley v. Harris | ||||||
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| The Eighth Amendment does not require, as an invariable rule in every case, that a state appellate court, before it affirms a death sentence, compare the sentence in the case before it with the penalties imposed in similar cases if requested to do so by the prisoner. | |||||||
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| Majority | White, joined by Burger, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, O'Connor; Stevens (except Part III) | ||||||
| Concurrence | Stevens | ||||||
| Dissent | Brennan, joined by Marshall | ||||||
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| U.S. Const. amend. VIII | |||||||
Pulley v. Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that there the Eighth Amendment does not require, as an invariable rule in every case, that a state appellate court, before it affirms a death sentence, compare the sentence in the case before it with the penalties imposed in similar cases if requested to do so by the prisoner.
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