p. 965No. 81-6110. No. 81-6205. No. 81-6352. Porter v. Texas. Bass v. Texas. Hance v. Zant, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center.
Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;
Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and
Super. Ct. Ga., Butts County. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 81-6110, 623 S. W. 2d 374 ; No. 81-6205, 622 S. W. 2d 101 .
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.
Cases cited
- Gregg v. Georgia 428 U. S. 153 at 231 p. 965