Legal Opinion
Rose v. Hodges
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 11, 1975No. 75-139PublishedCited by 351 opinions
1Per curiam
Respondents Hodges and Lewis were convicted of committing murder in the perpetration of a rape in Memphis, *20Tenn., and sentenced to death by electrocution. On July 31, 1972, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the judgments of conviction but reversed and remanded the record to the trial court on the issue of punishment, declaring that “[t]he Supreme Court of the United States has decreed that the death sentence is contrary to the Eighth Amendment . . . Hodges v. State, 491 S. W. 2d 624, 628 (1972).
On August 7, 1972, the Governor of Tennessee commuted respondents’ death sentences…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Furman v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Townsend v. SainSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Dreyer v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Schick v. ReedSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Bowen v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1972
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3Cited by351 opinions
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- State v. RitchieTennessee Supreme Court · 2000
- Bruce L. Franzen v. Brinkman, WardenCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1989
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