Clark v. Texas

481 U.S. 1059 | SCOTUS | 1987

Lead Opinion

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

Sup. Ct. Pa.;

Sup. Ct. Fla.;

C. A. 11th Cir.;

Sup. Ct. Ky.; and

Sup..Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 86-6193, 717 S. W. 2d 910; No. 86-6374, 511 Pa. 490, 515 A. 2d 832; No. 86-6599, 497 So. 2d 1169; No. 86-6603, 790 F. 2d 1499 and 809 F. 2d 750; No. 86-6618, 721 S. W. 2d 694; No. 86-6648, 497 So. 2d 1185.

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Dissenting Opinion

Justice Brennan and 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.