Thompson v. Louisiana, 488 U.S. 871

Thompson v. Louisiana

488 U.S. 871 | SCOTUS | 1988

Lead Opinion

*871Sup. Ct. La.; Sup. Ct. Tenn.; Sup. Ct. Ala.; Ct. Crim. App. Tenn.; Sup. Ct. Mo.; Sup. Ct. Mo.; C. A. 9th Cir.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Sup. Ct. Ala.; Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; Sup. Ct. Ga.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Ct. App. Mo., Eastern Dist.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Sup. Ct. Ala.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Ct. Crim. App. Ala.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Sup. Ct. Va.; Sup. Ct. Va.; Sup. Ct. Va.; Sup. Ct. Va.; Sup. Ct. Mo.; Sup. Ct. Cal.; Sup. Ct. Ga.; Ct. App. Ohio, Cuyahoga County; Sup. Ct. 111.; Sup. Ct. Pa.; C. A. 11th Cir.; Sup. Ct. Cal.; Sup. Ct. Cal.; Sup. Ct. Cal.; Sup. Ct. Wash.; *872Sup. Ct. Ind.; Sup. Ct. S. C.; C. A. 11th Cir.; Ct. Crim. App. Okla.; and Sup. Ct. 111. Certiorari denied.

No. 88-5138. No. 88-5147. No. 88-5178. No. 88-5190. No. 88-5194.

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.