High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! McCleskey v. Kemp, 481 U.S. 279 (1987), 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."