Case ID: us_495/html/0923-05.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 87-6927.
    No. 89-81.
    No. 89-5596.
    No. 89-6954.
    Hamilton, as Natural Mother and Next Friend of Smith v. Texas. Wilson et al. v. Lane, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections. Laws, by and Through Laws, as his Next Friend v. Delo, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center.
   Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; C. A. 7th Cir.; C. A. 8th Cir.; and Magwood v. Alabama. Sup. Ct. Ala. Certiorari denied.

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.