Phillips v. Texas

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided June 23, 1986

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1986-06-23

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Phillips v. State · State v. Mathenia

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Decided 1986-06-23

How this case has been cited

Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably State v. Antwine (1987), Jones v. State (1996)

9 federal appellate · 91 state decisions

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¶1Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

¶2Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶3Sup. Ct. Mo.;

¶4Sup. Ct. Mo.; and

¶5Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-6523, 701 S. W. 2d 875; No. 85-6545, 484 So. 2d 1235; No. 85-6696, 702 S. W. 2d 840; No. 85-6963, 705 S. W. 2d 19; No. 85-6974, 474 So. 2d 808.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶6dissenting.

¶7Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.