Bartholomey v. State

*197 Barnes, J.,

dissenting:

I dissent because, after a careful review of the five opinions of the plurality justices in Furman v. Georgia, 408 U. S. 238, 92 S. Ct. 2726, 33 L.Ed.2d 346 (1972), I cannot find any holding by the Supreme Court of the United States which requires us to hold or to indicate that the Maryland statutes in regard to capital punishment are unconstitutional under any provisions of the Federal Constitution or which requires us to change, in any way, the death penalties imposed in Bartholomey v. State and in the companion cases referred to in the majority opinion.

I will begin…