Enmund v. Florida
| Enmund v. Florida | |
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| Argued March 23, 1982 Decided July 2, 1982 | |
| Full case name | Earl Enmund v. State of Florida |
| Citations | 458 U.S. 782 (more) 102 S. Ct. 3368; 73 L. Ed. 2d 1140 |
| Case history | |
| Prior | Conviction and sentence upheld by the Supreme Court of Florida, 399 So. 2d 1362 (Fla. 1981); cert. granted, 454 U.S. 939 (1981). |
| Holding | |
| The Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment does not allow the death penalty for a person who is involved in a felony in the course of which a murder is committed but does not kill, attempt to kill, or intend for a killing to take place. | |
| Court membership | |
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| Case opinions | |
| Majority | White, joined by Brennan, Marshall, Blackmun, Stevens |
| Concurrence | Brennan |
| Dissent | O'Connor, joined by Burger, Powell, Rehnquist |
| Laws applied | |
| U.S. Const. amend. VIII | |
Enmund v. Florida, 458 U.S. 782 (1982), is a United States Supreme Court case. It was a 5–4 decision in which the United States Supreme Court applied its capital proportionality principle, to set aside the death penalty for the driver of a getaway car, in a robbery-murder of an elderly Floridian couple. The court ruled that the imposition of the death penalty under the felony murder rule when the defendant did not intentionally kill the victim constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment of the United States constitution.