p. 945No. 89-5385. No. 89-5433. No. 89-5510. No. 89-5535. No. 89-5547. No. 89-5548. No. 89-5589. No. 89-5741. Gates v. Zant, Superintendent, Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center. Liles v. Oklahoma. Rutherford v. Florida. Ferguson v. Snyder, Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. Andrews v. Barnes, Warden. Hallford v. Alabama. Fitzgerald v. Thompson, Warden. Taylor v. Tennessee.
C. A. 11th Cir.;
Ct. Crim. App. Okla.;
Sup. Ct. Fla.;
Sup. Ct. Utah;
Sup. Ct. Ala.;
Ct. App. Va.; and
Sup. Ct. Tenn. Cer-tiorari denied. Reported below: No. 89-5385, 863 F. 2d 1492 ; No. 89-5510, 545 So. 2d 853 ; No. 89-5535, 548 So. 2d 662 ; No. 89-5547, 779 P. 2d 228 ; No. 89-5548, 548 So. 2d 547 ; No. 89-5589, 6 Va. App. 38 , 366 S. E. 2d 615 ; No. 89-5741, 774 S. W. 2d 163 .
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.
Cases cited
- 863 F. 2d 1492 863 F. 2d 1492 p. 945
- Gregg v. Georgia 428 U. S. 153 at 231 p. 945