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Battie v. Texas

434 U.S. 1041 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1978-01-16 Docket No. 77-5657 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1041
No. 77-5657.
Battie 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 grant certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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