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Messiah v. Louisiana

493 U.S. 1063 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1990-01-22 Docket No. 89-5580; No. 89-6107; No. 89-6244 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1063
No. 89-5580.
No. 89-6107.
No. 89-6244.
Messiah v. Louisiana. Buchanan v. Virginia. Klokoc v. Florida.

Sup. Ct. La.;

Sup. Ct. Va.; and

Sup. Ct. Fla. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 89-5580, 538 So. 2d 175 ; No. 89-6107, 238 Va. 389 , 384 S. E. 2d 757 .

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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