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O'Bryan v. McKaskle

465 U.S. 1013 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1984-01-23 Docket No. 83-5626 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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No. 83-5626.
O’Bryan v. McKaskle, Acting Director, Texas Department of Corrections.

C. A. 5th Cir. Motion of Washington Legal Foundation for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. 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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