James v. Butler

486 U.S. 1046 | SCOTUS | 1988

Lead Opinion

C. A. 5th Cir.;

Ct. App. Mo., Eastern Dist.; and

No. 87-6905.

Sup. Ct. Ill. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 87-6233, 827 F. 2d 1006; No. 87-6869, 741 S. W. 2d 771; No. 87-6905, 119 Ill. 2d 69, 518 N. E. 2d 82.

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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.