488 U.S. 1034
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 17, 1989
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1989-01-17
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1989-01-17
Cited by 273 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably Tuilaepa v. California (1994), United States v. Hector Francisco Molina (1991)
128 federal appellate · 2 district · 71 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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¶1Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;
¶2Sup. Ct. Tenn.;
¶3Sup. Ct. Cal.;
¶4Sup. Ct. Cal.;
¶5C. A. 11th Cir.;
¶6Sup. Ct. Ohio;
¶7Sup. Ct. Cal.; and
¶8Sup. Ct. Cal. Certiorari denied.
¶9dissenting.
¶10Adhering 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.