Commonwealth v. Howard

How courts have described this case

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• death penalty not cruel and unusual punishment under either state or federal constitutions merely because defendant had been classified as “mentally ill” with borderline or transient psychosis
• death penalty not cruel and unusual punishment under either state or federal constitutions merely because defendant had been classified as \mentally ill\ with borderline or transient psychosis
• death penalty not cruel and unusual punishment under either state or federal constitutions merely because defendant had been classified as ‘mentally ill’ with borderline or transient psychosis
• death penalty not cruel and unusual punishment under either state or federal constitutions merely because defendant had been classified as “mentally ill” with borderline or transient psychosis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-12-30· cited 709×
• Commonwealth v. Story
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-28· cited 50×
• Bear v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1968-04-05· cited 28×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Stanley Howard v. Harry E. Russell, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Huntingdon, Pa
  Third Circuit· 1969-01-07· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-06-01· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Naugle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-05-13
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-09-15

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Gorshen
  California Supreme Court· 1959-03-11· cited 273×
• United States v. Charles Freeman
  Second Circuit· 1966-02-28· cited 220×
• Commonwealth v. Carroll
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-11-12· cited 103×
• Commonwealth v. Green
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-05-08· cited 95×
• Commonwealth v. Melton
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-03-13· cited 92×
• Commonwealth v. Ahearn
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-04-19· cited 63×
• Commonwealth v. Tyrrell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1961-11-14· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Ballem
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1956-06-25· cited 57×
• Commonwealth v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-01-02· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Cater
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-11-15· cited 19×
• People v. Moseley
  New York Court of Appeals· 1967-06-01· cited 4×