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Gregg appealed to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] who ruled in a 7-2 decision, with only Justices [[William Brennan]] and [[Thurgood Marshall]] dissenting, that the death sentence did not violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment as long as it was used on the proper grounds. Georgia's death penalty statute assures that it is given judiciously only after deep investigation into the case to make sure that its severity merits such strong punishment.
Gregg appealed to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] who ruled in a 7-2 decision, with only Justices [[William Brennan]] and [[Thurgood Marshall]] dissenting, that the death sentence did not violate the Eighth or Fourteenth Amendment as long as it was used on the proper grounds. Georgia's death penalty statute assures that it is given judiciously only after deep investigation into the case to make sure that its severity merits such strong punishment.
This case is one of the five "Death Penalty Cases", the other four being
This case is one of the five "Death Penalty Cases", the other four being:
* ''[[Proffitt v. Florida]]''
* ''[[Proffitt v. Florida]]''
* ''[[Roberts v. Louisiana]]''
* ''[[Roberts v. Louisiana]]''
* ''[[Woodson v. North Carolina]]''
* ''[[Woodson v. North Carolina]]''
* ''[[Jurek v. Texas]]''
* ''[[Jurek v. Texas]]''
The five cases were heard together. The court ruled that the Georgia, Florida, and Texas revised death penalty statutes were Constitutional, but struck down the Louisiana and North Carolina revisions. (The court ruled that Texas' statute -- which took a different approach from the others by legally defining only a narrow class of murders as death-eligible -- could potentially result in fewer executions, highly ironic that in the ''post-Gregg'' era Texas has led the nation in the number of executions.)
== Sources ==
== Sources ==