Fisher v. Oklahoma

486 U.S. 1061 | SCOTUS | 1988

Lead Opinion

Ct. Crim. App. Okla.;

Sup. Ct. N. C.;

Gen. Ct. Justice, Super. Ct. Div., Forsyth County, N. C.;

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

Sup. Ct. Wash.;

Sup. Ct. Fla.;

Sup. Ct. N. C.;

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and

Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 87-6008, 736 P. 2d 1003 and 739 P. 2d 523; No. 87-6125, 320 N. C. 688, 360 S. E. 2d 667; No. 87-6365, 744 S. W. 2d 53; No. 87-6460, 108 Wash. 2d 734, 743 P. 2d 210; No. 87-6644, 520 So. 2d 246; No. 87-6674, 321 N. C. 125, 362 S. E. 2d 513; No. 87-6774, 741 S. W. 2d 382; No. 87-6845, 736 S. W. 2d 673.

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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.