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Gholson v. Texas

432 U.S. 911 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1977-06-20 Docket No. 76-6333 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 911
No. 76-6333.
Gholson et al. v. Texas.

Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied.

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 vacate the death sentences in this case.

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