Maynard v. Cartwright

Maynard v. Cartwright
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued April 19, 1988 Decided June 6, 1988
Full case name	Maynard v. Cartwright
Citations	486 U.S. 356 (more)
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices William J. Brennan, Jr. · Byron White Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy

Maynard v. Cartwright 486 U. S. 356 (1988) is a United States Supreme Court case ^[1] in which a unanimous Court found that the "especially heinous, atrocious or cruel" standard for the application of the death penalty as defined by the Eighth Amendment was too vague. As such, Oklahoma's law was overturned based on Furman v. Georgia.

Justices Brennan and Marshall announced a characteristic concurrence, claiming that they would adhere to their view that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.^[2]

See also

• Capital punishment
• Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Walton v. Arizona
• List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 487
• List of United States Supreme Court cases
• Lists of United States Supreme Court cases by volume
• List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court

References

1. MAYNARD V. CARTWRIGHT, 486 U. S. 356 (1988) - US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
2. Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153, 227 , 231 (1976)