Garmon v. Johnson

Hill, Justice.

In Cook v. State, 242 Ga. 657 (251 SE2d 230) (1978), this court considered four statutes or circumstances under which crimes with death as possible penalties prescribed by the Code (e.g., armed robbery, rape, kidnapping with bodily injury) would or would not be considered as capital felonies in light of Coker v. Georgia, 433 U. S. 584 (97 SC 2861, 53 LE2d 982) (1977), Eberheart v. Georgia, 433 U. S. 917 (97 SC 2994, 53 LE2d 1104) (1977), Gregg v. State, 233 Ga. 117, 127 (210 SE2d 659) (1974), and Floyd v. State, 233 Ga. 280, 285 (210 SE2d 810) (1974).

We now consider yet another…