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Andrade v. Texas

475 U.S. 1112 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1986-04-07 Docket No. 85-6376; No. 85-6439 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1112
No. 85-6376.
No. 85-6439.
Andrade v. Texas. Wise v. Virginia.

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and

Sup. Ct. Va. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 85-6376, 700 S. W. 2d 585 ; No. 85-6439, 230 Va. 322 , 337 S. E. 2d 715 .

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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