Belyeu v. Texas

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 18, 1991

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1991-03-18

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · 137 Ill. 2d 65 - People v. Bean · Commonwealth v. Henry

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Decided 1991-03-18

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Cited by 81 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably Simmons v. South Carolina (1994), Data General Corporation v. Grumman Systems Support Corporation (1994)

17 federal appellate · 4 district · 47 state decisions

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¶1 *931Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

¶2Sup. Ct. Neb.;

¶3C. A. 8th Cir.;

¶4Sup. Ct. Pa.;

*932No. 90-6541.No. 90-6816.No. 90-6818.No. 90-6850.No. 90-6855.

¶5Sup. Ct. Ill.;

¶6Sup. Ct. Fla.;

¶7Sup. Ct. Mo.;

¶8C. A. 9th Cir.; and

¶9Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 90-6086, 791 S. W. 2d 66; No. 90-6101, 235 Neb. 230, 455 N. W. 2d 117; No. 90-6291, 906 F. 2d 1230; No. 90-6325, 524 Pa. 135, 569 A. 2d 929; No. 90-6541, 137 Ill. 2d 65, 560 N. E. 2d 258; No. 90-6816, 564 So. 2d 1066; No. 90-6818, 796 S. W. 2d 607; No. 90-6855, 795 S. W. 2d 743.

Justice Marshall,

¶10dissenting.

¶11Adhering to my view 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, 231 (1976), I would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.