McCleskey v. Kemp
Case Date: 05/06/1987
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McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987),[1] was a United States Supreme Court court case, in which the death penalty sentencing of McCleskey for armed robbery and murder was upheld. The Court said the "racially disproportionate impact" in Georgia death penalty indicated by a comprehensive scientific study was not enough to overturn the guilty verdict without showing a "racially discriminatory purpose."[2]
Dan T. Coenen of University of Georgia School of Law describes McCleskey as being the “most far-reaching post-Gregg challenge to capital sentencing.”[3] NYU Law School's Anthony G. Amsterdam called it “the Dred Scott decision of our time.”[4]
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