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Coleman Vs. Balkcom

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jan 01, 1981

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  11. U.S. 949 (1981) U.S. Supreme Court Coleman v. Balkcom
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  12. U.S. 949 (1981) Coleman v. Balkcom
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  13. from time to time in the light of changes that affect the business of the federal judiciary. See, e.g., Watt v. Alaska
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  14. U. S. 259 , 451 U. S. 273 (STEVENS, J., concurring), and Singleton v. Commissioner
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  15. fact that the enactment of new Page 451 U. S. 951 state legislation after this Court's decision in Furman v. Georgia
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  16. between the entry of the stays in the Furman litigation in 1972, and the decisions in July, 1976, in Gregg v. Georgia
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  17. U. S. 242 , and Jurek v. Texas
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  18. See Adams v. Texas
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  19. Green v. Georgia
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  20. Davis v. Georgia
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  21. was awaiting this Court's determination of the constitutionality of the Florida death penalty statute in Proffitt v. Florida
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  22. executive clemency, and before the trial court on a motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a sentence. See Spenkelink v. State
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  23. is in issue, the Constitution may impose unusual limitations on the States. As we emphasized just last Term in Beck v. Alabama
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  24. Washington v. Texas
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  25. He was sentenced to death under Georgia's capital punishment statute, a statute expressly held constitutional in Gregg v. Georgia
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  26. U. S. 153 (1976). The sentence was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Georgia, Coleman v. State
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  27. Ga. 84, 226 S.E.2d 911 (1976), and this Court denied the first petition for certiorari. Coleman v. Georgia
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  28. his death sentence because in its view his trial or sentence was not free from constitutional error. See Estelle v. Jurek
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  29. law. Although this Court has determined that capital punishment statutes do not violate the Constitution, Gregg v. Georgia
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  30. of them appear to face any imminent prospect of their sentence being executed. Indeed, in the five years since Gregg v. Georgia
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  31. there has been only one execution of a defendant who has persisted in his attack upon his sentence. See Spenkelink v. Wainwright
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  32. at all costs. That surely was not the intent of the opinion of JUSTICES STEWART, POWELL, and STEVENS in Gregg v. Georgia
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  33. a death sentence on a defendant who has been fairly tried by a jury of peers. As Justice Jackson stated in Stein v. New
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  34. Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, Minutes of Evidence, Dec. 1, 1949, p. 207 (1950), quoted in Gregg v. Georgia
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  35. Id. at 428 U. S. 183 , quoting Furman v. Georgia
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  36. See Neil v. Biggers
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  37. U.S. Supreme Court Coleman v. Balkcom
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  38. and Singleton v. Commissioner
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  39. Furman v. Georgia
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  40. Gregg v. Georgia
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  41. and Jurek v. Texas
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  42. See Spenkelink v. State
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  43. the Supreme Court of Georgia, Coleman v. State
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  44. Coleman v. Georgia
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  45. See Estelle v. Jurek
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  46. the Constitution, Gregg v. Georgia
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  47. See Spenkelink v. Wainwright
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  48. Stein v. New
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  49. Roberts v. Louisiana
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  50. Spenkelink v. Wainwright
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