Burton v. California

Sup. Ct. Cal.;

Sup. Ct. Mo.;

Sup. Ct. Ill.;

Sup. Ct. Ga.;

Sup. Ct. Fla.;

Ct. App. Mo., Southern Dist.;

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.;

Sup. Ct. Ohio;

Ct. App. Mo., Eastern Dist.; and

Sup. Ct. Ohio. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 88-5871, 756 S. W. 2d 503 ; No. 88-6079, 123 Ill. 2d 387 , 528 N. E. 2d 648 ; No. 88-6082, 258 Ga. 523 , 371 S. E. 2d 849 ; No. 88-6101, 530 So. 2d 45 ; No. 88-6135, 755 S. W. 2d 417 ; No. 88-6136, 529 So. 2d 1083 ; No. 88-6166, 762 S. W. 2d 146 ; No. 88-6190, 38 Ohio St. 3d 346 , 528 N. E. 2d 910 ; No. 88-6202, 46 Cal. 3d 123 , 756 P. 2d 1348 ; No. 88-6290, 755 S. W. 2d 419 ; No. 88-6325, 38 Ohio St. 3d 305 , 528 N. E. 2d 523 .

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.