Walker v. Illinois

Sup. Ct. Ill.;

Ct. App. Md.;

Sup. Ct. Fla.;

Ct. Crim. App. Okla.;

Ct. Crim. App. Ala.;

Sup. Ct. Wash.;

Ct. Crim. App. Okla.; and

Sup. Ct. Ga. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 86-277, 109 Ill. 2d 484 , 488 N. E. 2d 529 ; No. 86-5453, 306 Md. 428 , 509 A. 2d 1179 ; No. 86-5617, 489 So. 2d 720 ; No. 86-5631, 720 P. 2d 734 ; No. 86-5639, 494 So. 2d 124 ; No. 86-5644, 105 Wash. 2d 692 , 718 P. 2d 407 ; No. 86-5683, 723 P. 2d 273 ; No. 86-5686, 256 Ga. 140 , 344 S. E. 2d 644 .

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.