492 U.S. 911
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 26, 1989
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1989-06-26
Cited by 57 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2009 · most notably Robertson v. Seattle Audubon Society (1992), Lagrone v. State (1997)
16 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Bennett v. State · Westley v. State
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1989-06-26
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¶1Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and
¶2Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 88-6897, 754 S. W. 2d 224; No. 88-7090, 766 S. W. 2d 227.
¶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.