These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

We are concerned here only with the imposition of capital punishment for the crime of murder, and when a life has been taken deliberately by the offender, we cannot say that the punishment is invariably disproportionate to the crime. It is an extreme sanction suitable to the most extreme of crimes.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places. What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. But what he seeks to preserve as private, even in an area accessible to the public, may be constitutionally protected.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.