Gregg v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States, 1976
428 U.S. 153
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Brief Fact Summary
Defendant, a hitchhiker, killed and robbed two men who had picked him up. After being convicted and sentenced to death under Georgia's newly revised capital punishment statute, defendant challenges the imposition of the death penalty under the Eighth Amendment.
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