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Montoya v. Texas

487 U.S. 1227 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1988-06-27 Docket No. 87-6731 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1227
No. 87-6731.
Montoya 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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