Lindsey v. Smith
489 U.S. 1059
SCOTUS
1989
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Lead Opinion

C. A. 11th Cir.;

Sup. Ct. Ill.;

Sup. Ct. Ky.;

C. A. 11th Cir.;

Ct. Crim. App. Ala.;

C. A. 5th Cir.;

C. A. 11th Cir.;

Sup. Ct. Ga.;

Sup. Ct. Cal.;

Sup. Ct. Cal.; and

Ct. App. Mo., Eastern Dist. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 87-5617, 820 F. 2d 1137; No. 87-6740, 119 Ill. 2d 61, 518 N. E. 2d 78; No. 87-7103, 746 S. W. 2d 393; No. 88-5082, 838 F. 2d 1510; No. 88-5473, 527 So. 2d 1355; No. 88-5687, 849 F. 2d 204; No. 88-5828, 854 F. 2d 394; No. 88-6310, 46 Cal. 3d 432, 758 P. 2d 1135; No. 88-6410, 757 S. W. 2d 249.





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.