Maynard v. Cartwright
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| Argued April 19, 1988 Decided June 6, 1988 |
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| Chief Justice: William Rehnquist Associate Justices: William J. Brennan, Jr., Byron White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy |
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Maynard v. Cartwright 486 U. S. 356 (1988) is a United States Supreme Court case [1] in which the 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.
