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Brock v. Texas

434 U.S. 1002 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1977-12-12 Docket No. 77-5553; No. 77-5620 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1002
No. 77-5553.
No. 77-5620.
Brock v. Texas. Young v. Georgia.

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and

Sup. Ct. Ga. Certio-rari denied. Reported below: No. 77-5553, 556 S. W. 2d 300 ; No. 77-5620, 239 Ga. 53 , 236 S. E. 2d 1 .

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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