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Pyles v. Texas

488 U.S. 986 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1988-12-05 Docket No. 88-5625; No. 88-5782 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 986
No. 88-5625.
No. 88-5782.
Pyles v. Texas. Briddle v. Texas.

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; and

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 sentences in these cases.

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