Stoker v. Texas

498 U.S. 951 | SCOTUS | 1990

Lead Opinion

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

Sup. Ct. Ohio;

Sup. Ct. Fla.; and

C. A. 11th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 89-7684, 788 S. W. 2d 1; No. 90-5459, 50 Ohio St. 3d 24, 553 N. E. 2d 576; No. 90-5607, 560 So. 2d 217; No. 90-5859, 901 F. 2d 908.






Dissenting Opinion

Justice Marshall,

dissenting.

Adhering to my view 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, 231 (1976), I would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.

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