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Westley v. Texas

492 U.S. 911 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1989-06-26 Docket No. 88-6897; No. 88-7090 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 911
No. 88-6897.
No. 88-7090.
Westley v. Texas. Bennett v. Texas.

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and

Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 88-6897, 754 S. W. 2d 224 ; No. 88-7090, 766 S. W. 2d 227 .

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.

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