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Romero v. Collins

494 U.S. 1012 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1990-02-26 Docket No. 89-6390 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1012
No. 89-6390.
Romero v. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division.

C. A. 5th Cir. 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 sentence in this case.

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