Chambers v. Texas

Feb 21, 1979
No 78-517; No. 78-5901
Reporters:
Before:
Brennan

Lead Opinion

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and

Sup. Ct. Ga. Certi-orari denied. Reported below: No. 78-517, 568 S. W. 2d 313; No. 78-5901, 241 Ga. 583, 247 S. E. 2d 57.





Dissenting Opinion

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall,

dissenting.

Adhering 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.