McDowell v. Sumner
490 U.S. 1059
SCOTUS
1989
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Lead Opinion

Sup. Ct. Cal.;

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and

C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.





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.