No. 83-5799; No. 83-5943; No. 83-6016; No. 83-6020; No. 83-6043; No. 83-6148 | SCOTUS | Feb 27, 1984
Lead Opinion
Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;
Sup. Ct. N. M.;
Sup. Ct. Tenn.;
Sup. Ct. Ariz.;
Sup. Ct. Fla.; and
Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 83-5799, 655 S. W. 2d 711; No. 83-5943, 100 N. M. 392, 671 P.2d 640" court="N.M." date_filed="1983-10-17" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/state-v-gilbert-2605164?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="2605164">671 P. 2d 640; No. 83-6016, 657 S.W.2d 405" court="Tenn." date_filed="1983-08-29" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/state-v-williams-1753160?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="1753160">657 S. W. 2d 405; No. 83-6020, 138 Ariz. 79" court="Ariz." date_filed="1983-09-28" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/state-v-smith-1259664?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="1259664">138 Ariz. 79, 673 P. 2d 17; No. 83-6043, 438 So. 2d 803" court="Fla." date_filed="1983-09-15" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/engle-v-state-1840793?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="1840793">438 So. 2d 803; No. 83-6148, 439 So. 2d 840" court="Fla." date_filed="1983-08-25" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/teffeteller-v-state-1677294?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="1677294">439 So. 2d 840.
Dissenting Opinion
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" court="SCOTUS" date_filed="1976-07-22" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/gregg-v-georgia-109532?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="109532">428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.