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Nixon v. Mississippi

490 U.S. 1102 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1989-06-05 Docket No. 88-6723; No. 88-6791 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1102
No. 88-6723.
Nixon v. Mississippi. Gentry v. Texas.
No. 88-6791.

Sup. Ct. Miss.; 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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