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Byrd v. Armontrout

494 U.S. 1019 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1990-03-05 Docket No. 89-6219; No. 89-6404; No. 89-6405 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1019
No. 89-6219.
Byrd v. Armontrout, Warden, et al.

C. A. 8th Cir.;

Dissent — Brennan J.

p. 1020
Townsend v. Indiana. Starr v. Arkansas.

Sup. Ct. Ind.; and Sup. Ct. Ark. Certiorari denied.

No. 89-6404.

No. 89-6405.

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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