481 U.S. 1072
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 26, 1987
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1987-05-26
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · West v. State
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Decided 1987-05-26
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Dowthitt v. State (1996), Hollinger
52 federal appellate · 6 district · 34 state decisions
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¶1Ct. Crim. App. Tex; and
¶2Ct. Crim. App. Okla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 86-6451, 720 S. W. 2d 511.
¶3dissenting.
¶4Adhering 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.