Travaglia v. Pennsylvania

491 U.S. 910 | SCOTUS | 1989

Lead Opinion

Super. Ct. Pa.;

Sup. Ct. Wash.;

Sup. Ct. Mont.;

Sup. Ct. Ariz.;

Sup. Ct. Pa.;

Sup. Ct. Ala.;

Sup. Ct. Cal.;

Sup. Ct. Va.;

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

Ct. Crim. App.

Tenn.; and

C. A. 4th Cir. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 88-5024, 359 Pa. Super. 630, 515 A. 2d 620; No. 88-5685, 110 Wash. 2d 577, 757 P. 2d 889; No. 88-6006, 233 Mont. 345, 761 P. 2d 352; No. 88-6154, 158 Ariz. 232, 762 P. 2d 519; No. 88-6468, 519 Pa. 571, 549 A. 2d 513; No. 88-7073, 539 Sc. 2d 399; No. 88-7120, 47 Cal. 3d *911315, 763 P. 2d 1289; No. 88-7132, 237 Va. 303, 377 S. E. 2d 595; No. 88-7135, 760 S. W. 2d 263; No. 88-7201, 871 F. 2d 18.





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.