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Coleman Vs. Balkcom
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- Jan 01, 1981
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U.S. 949 (1981) U.S. Supreme Court Coleman v. BalkcomSearch
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U.S. 949 (1981) Coleman v. BalkcomSearch
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from time to time in the light of changes that affect the business of the federal judiciary. See, e.g., Watt v. AlaskaSearch
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U. S. 259 , 451 U. S. 273 (STEVENS, J., concurring), and Singleton v. CommissionerSearch
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fact that the enactment of new Page 451 U. S. 951 state legislation after this Court's decision in Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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between the entry of the stays in the Furman litigation in 1972, and the decisions in July, 1976, in Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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U. S. 242 , and Jurek v. TexasSearch
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See Adams v. TexasSearch
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Green v. GeorgiaSearch
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Davis v. GeorgiaSearch
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was awaiting this Court's determination of the constitutionality of the Florida death penalty statute in Proffitt v. FloridaSearch
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executive clemency, and before the trial court on a motion to vacate, set aside, or correct a sentence. See Spenkelink v. StateSearch
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is in issue, the Constitution may impose unusual limitations on the States. As we emphasized just last Term in Beck v. AlabamaSearch
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Washington v. TexasSearch
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He was sentenced to death under Georgia's capital punishment statute, a statute expressly held constitutional in Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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U. S. 153 (1976). The sentence was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Georgia, Coleman v. StateSearch
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Ga. 84, 226 S.E.2d 911 (1976), and this Court denied the first petition for certiorari. Coleman v. GeorgiaSearch
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his death sentence because in its view his trial or sentence was not free from constitutional error. See Estelle v. JurekSearch
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law. Although this Court has determined that capital punishment statutes do not violate the Constitution, Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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of them appear to face any imminent prospect of their sentence being executed. Indeed, in the five years since Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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there has been only one execution of a defendant who has persisted in his attack upon his sentence. See Spenkelink v. WainwrightSearch
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at all costs. That surely was not the intent of the opinion of JUSTICES STEWART, POWELL, and STEVENS in Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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a death sentence on a defendant who has been fairly tried by a jury of peers. As Justice Jackson stated in Stein v. NewSearch
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Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, Minutes of Evidence, Dec. 1, 1949, p. 207 (1950), quoted in Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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Id. at 428 U. S. 183 , quoting Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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See Neil v. BiggersSearch
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U.S. Supreme Court Coleman v. BalkcomSearch
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and Singleton v. CommissionerSearch
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Furman v. GeorgiaSearch
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Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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and Jurek v. TexasSearch
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See Spenkelink v. StateSearch
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the Supreme Court of Georgia, Coleman v. StateSearch
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Coleman v. GeorgiaSearch
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See Estelle v. JurekSearch
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the Constitution, Gregg v. GeorgiaSearch
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See Spenkelink v. WainwrightSearch
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Stein v. NewSearch
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Roberts v. LouisianaSearch
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Spenkelink v. WainwrightSearch
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