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Hernandez v. Texas

462 U.S. 1144 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1983-06-20 Docket No. 82-6448 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1144
No. 82-6448.
Hernandez 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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