495 U.S. 940
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 14, 1990
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1990-05-14
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently December 2009 · most notably United States v. Rusher (1992), Rousseau v. State (1993)
33 federal appellate · 3 district · 45 state decisions
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1990-05-14
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¶1Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;
¶2Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;
¶3C. A. 4th Cir.;
¶4Sup. Ct. Fla.;
¶5Sup. Ct. Ga.;
¶6Sup. Ct. Mo.; and
¶7Sup. Ct. Va.
¶8Certiorari 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.