Case ID: us_441/html/0967-04.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. Justice Marshall,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 78-6223.
    No. 78-6275.
    No. 78-6310.
    No. 78-6443.
    Von Byrd v. Texas. Berryhill v. Zant, Warden. Smith v. Virginia. Goode v. Florida.
   Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

Sup. Ct. Ga.;

Sup. Ct. Va.; and

Sup. Ct. Fla. Certio-rari denied.

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. 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.