King v. Texas
434 U.S. 1088
SCOTUS
1978
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Lead Opinion

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and

Sup. Ct. Ga. Certio-rari denied. Reported below: No. 77-5687, 553 S. W. 2d 105; No. 77-5715, 556 S. W. 2d 287; No. 77-5921, 239 Ga. 238, 236 S. E. 2d 594.





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.