488 U.S. 986
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 5, 1988
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1988-12-05
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1988-12-05
Cited by 208 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2016 · most notably Southwall Technologies, Inc. v. Cardinal IG Co. (1995), In Re Michael Sindram (1991)
39 federal appellate · 21 district · 64 state decisions
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¶1Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and
¶2Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied.
¶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.