Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), was a United States Supreme Court case, in which the death penalty sentencing of Warren McCleskey for armed robbery and murder was upheld. The Court said the "racially disproportionate impact" in Georgia death penalty indicated by a comprehensive scientific study was not enough to overturn the guilty verdict without showing a "racially discriminatory purpose." McCleskey has been described as the “most far-reaching post-Gregg challenge to capital sentencing.”McCleskey was named one of the worst Supreme Court decisions since World War II by a Los Angeles Times survey among legal scholars. In a New York Times comment eight days after the decision, Anthony Lewis charged that the Supreme Court had “effectively condoned the expression of racism in a profound aspect of our law.” Anthony G. Amsterdam called it “the Dred Scott decision of our time.”Justice Lewis Powell, when asked by his biographer if he wanted to change his vote in any case, replied, "Yes, McCleskey v. Kemp.""@en }
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- McCleskey_v._Kemp abstract "McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), was a United States Supreme Court case, in which the death penalty sentencing of Warren McCleskey for armed robbery and murder was upheld. The Court said the "racially disproportionate impact" in Georgia death penalty indicated by a comprehensive scientific study was not enough to overturn the guilty verdict without showing a "racially discriminatory purpose." McCleskey has been described as the “most far-reaching post-Gregg challenge to capital sentencing.”McCleskey was named one of the worst Supreme Court decisions since World War II by a Los Angeles Times survey among legal scholars. In a New York Times comment eight days after the decision, Anthony Lewis charged that the Supreme Court had “effectively condoned the expression of racism in a profound aspect of our law.” Anthony G. Amsterdam called it “the Dred Scott decision of our time.”Justice Lewis Powell, when asked by his biographer if he wanted to change his vote in any case, replied, "Yes, McCleskey v. Kemp."".