← Cases

Cordova v. Texas

476 U.S. 1101 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1986-05-05 Docket No. 85-6104 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

Contents
p. 1101
No. 85-6104.
Cordova v. Texas.

Appeal from Ct. Crim. App. Tex. dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Treating the papers whereon the appeal was taken as a petition for writ of certiorari, 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.

Cases cited

Statutes and regulations cited