Fearance v. Texas

Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Applications for stays of mandates, presented to Justice White, and by him referred to the Court, denied. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 88-7026, 771 S. W. 2d 486 ; No. 88-7354, 769 S. W. 2d 887 .

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.