Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Maynard v. Cartwright 486 U. S. 356 (1988) is a United States Supreme Court case 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."@en }
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- Maynard_v._Cartwright abstract "Maynard v. Cartwright 486 U. S. 356 (1988) is a United States Supreme Court case 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.".