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` Cite as: 580 U. S. ____ (2017)
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`BREYER, J., dissenting
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`SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
`MARCUS DANTE REED v. LOUISIANA
`ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME
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`COURT OF LOUISIANA
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`No. 16–656 Decided February 27, 2017
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`The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
`JUSTICE BREYER, dissenting from the denial of certiorari.
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`Marcus Dante Reed was sentenced to death in Caddo
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`Parish, Louisiana, a county that in recent history has
`apparently sentenced more people to death per capita than
`any other county in the United States. See Aviv, Revenge
`Killing: Race and the Death Penalty in a Louisiana Par-
`ish, The New Yorker, July 6 & 13, 2015, p. 34. The arbi-
`trary role that geography plays in the imposition of the
`death penalty, along with the other serious problems I
`have previously described, has led me to conclude that the
`Court should consider the basic question of the death
`penalty’s constitutionality. See Glossip v. Gross, 576 U. S.
`___ (2015) (BREYER, J., dissenting). For this reason, I
`would grant Reed’s petition for a writ of certiorari.
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