Washington v. Texas
492 U.S. 912
SCOTUS
1989
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Lead Opinion

Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Applications for stays of mandates, presented to Justice White, and by him referred to the Court, denied. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 88-6965, 771 S. W. 2d 537; No. 88-7010, 771 S. W. 2d 523; No. 88-7062, 767 S. W. 2d 711.





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.