Word: brennans
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Writing for the majority, Justice William Brennan declared that the Louisiana requirement ran afoul of the First Amendment's ban on laws "respecting an establishment of religion." He found that creation science "embodies the religious belief that a supernatural creator was responsible for the creation of humankind." Therefore, he concluded, the statute's mandate that it be taught "advances a religious doctrine" and "seeks to employ the symbolic and financial support of government to achieve a religious purpose...
Justices William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissented, calling the study proof of impermissible lingering racism in American justice. "Race casts a large shadow on the capital sentencing process," wrote Brennan. The dissenters questioned why statistical evidence, acceptable for attacking discrimination in employment or jury selection, was not acceptable in this case. They also charged that the majority was driven by other than judicial concerns -- a fear of disrupting the implementation of the criminal-justice system in Georgia and elsewhere...
...applied against juveniles, but only about 33 prisoners would be affected. While individual challenges may prevent the death row floodgates from opening all at once this year, the consolidation of capital punishment appears nearly complete. The Justices writing last week seemed to know that. Summoning particular eloquence, Dissenter Brennan said, "It is tempting to pretend that minorities on death row share a fate in no way connected to our own, that our treatment of them sounds no echoes beyond the chambers in which they die. Such an illusion is ultimately corrosive, for the reverberations of injustice are not so easily...
...Narrowing the class of death-eligible defendants is not too high a price to pay for a death penalty system that does not discriminate on the basis of race," Brennan wrote for the four dissenters...
...start of the Bullet LaVolta. After the delicate sound of the Blake Babies, the decibel sound of Bullet hit you like a well-aimed right from Mike Tyson. Bullet LaVolta's strength comes from duelling guitars of Adams House junior Clay Tarver and Adams House Classics Tutor Corey Brennan: Tarver favors straight-forward riffs while Brennan produces lightning-quick metal solos. The result is a combination of licks reminiscent of the best MC5 or Cream and the manual dexterity of modern metal...