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Milton v. Texas

451 U.S. 1031 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1981-05-26 Docket No. 80-6324; No. 80-6367 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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No. 80-6324.
No. 80-6367.
Milton v. Texas. Briley v. Virginia.

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and

Sup. Ct. Va. Certio-

Dissent — Brennan J.

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rari denied. Reported below: No. 80-6324, 599 S. W. 2d 824 ; No. 80-6367, 221 Va. 532 , 273 S. E. 2d 48 .

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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