West v. Illinois

500 U.S. 928 | SCOTUS | 1991

Lead Opinion

*928Sup. Ct. Ill;

Sup. Ct. Mo.;

Sup. Ct. Fla.;

*929C. A. 5th Cir.;

Sup. Ct. Ariz.;

Sup. Ct. Ark.;

Ct. Common Pleas, Charleston County, S. C.;

Sup. Ct. Mo.;

Sup. Ct. Ariz.; and

Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 90-6683, 137 Ill. 2d 558, 560 N. E. 2d 594; No. 90-7132, 798 S. W. 2d 152; No. 90-7295, 563 So. 2d 77; No. 90-7317, 922 F. 2d 242; No. 90-7344, 166 Ariz. 132, 800 P. 2d 1240; No. 90-7398, 304 Ark. xxiv; No. 90-7509, 798 S. W. 2d 149; No. 90-7547, 166 Ariz. 152, 800 P. 2d 1260; No. 90-7579, 570 So. 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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