A jury found Gregg guilty of armed robbery and murder and sentenced him to death. On appeal, the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence except as to its imposition for the robbery conviction.

Petitioner was charged with committing armed robbery and murder on the basis of evidence that he had killed and robbed two men. At the trial stage of Georgia's bifurcated procedure, the jury found petitioner guilty of two counts of armed robbery and two counts of murder.

Gregg v. Georgia, Proffitt v. Florida, Jurek v. Texas, Woodson v. North Carolina, and Roberts v. Louisiana, 428 U.S. 153 (1976), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. It reaffirmed the Court's acceptance of the use of the death penalty in the United States, upholding, in particular, the death sentence imposed on Troy Leon Gregg.

2017年3月27日 · Gregg was convicted of murder and sentenced to the death penalty under a Georgia state statute. Gregg claimed the sentence violated the Eighth and 14th Amendment of the Constitution. The state Supreme Court affirmed the sentence for the murder conviction and Gregg appealed.

Greg v Georgia is a U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was held that death penalty for murder was not in and of itself a cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. It was held that the Eighth Amendment has to be interpreted in a dynamic and flexible manner to conform with evolving standards of decency.

Troy Gregg had been found guilty of murder and armed robbery and sentenced to death. He asked the Court to go further than it had in the Furman case, and rule the death penalty itself unconstitutional.

Petitioner was charged with committing armed robbery and murder on the basis of evidence that he had killed and robbed two men. At the trial stage of Georgia's bifurcated procedure, the jury found petitioner guilty of two counts of armed robbery and two counts of murder.

Petitioner was sentenced to death for armed robbery and murder of two men in Georgia. On appeal the Georgia Supreme Court affirmed except as to the imposition of a death sentence on robbery charges. The U.S. Supreme court granted certiorari.

Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976) (upholding statute providing for a bifurcated proceeding separating the guilt and sentencing phases, requiring the jury to find at least one of ten statutory aggravating factors before imposing death, and providing for review of death sentences by the Georgia Supreme Court).

1976年3月31日 · The issue in this case is whether the imposition of the sentence of death for the crime of murder under the law of Georgia violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. I The petitioner, Troy Gregg, was charged with committing armed robbery and murder.