Full case name Pulley v. Harris Concurrence Stevens | Citations 465 U.S. 37 (more) Date decided 1984 | |
Majority White, joined by Burger, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, O'Connor; Stevens (except Part III) Dissent Brennan, joined by Marshall Similar Coker v Georgia, Gregg v Georgia, Furman v Georgia, Witherspoon v Illinois, McCleskey v Kemp | ||
Pulley v. Harris, 465 U.S. 37 (1984), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that there the Eighth Amendment does not require, as an invariable rule in every case, that a state appellate court, before it affirms a death sentence, compare the sentence in the case before it with the penalties imposed in similar cases if requested to do so by the prisoner.
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