Case ID: us_493/html/0984-03.html
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Author: {"author": "Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 89-5765.
    Franz, Individually and as Next Friend of Simmons, et al. v. Lockhart, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al.
   C. A. 8th Cir. Motion of the parties to consolidate this petition with No. 88-7146, Whitmore, Individually and as Next Friend of Simmons v. Arkansas et al. [certiorari granted, 492 U. S. 917], denied. Certiorari before judgment 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 sentence in this case.