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Hamilton ex rel. Smith v. Texas

495 U.S. 923 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1990-04-30 Docket No. 87-6927; No. 89-81; No. 89-5596; No. 89-6954 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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No. 87-6927.
No. 89-81.
No. 89-5596.
No. 89-6954.
Hamilton, as Natural Mother and Next Friend of Smith v. Texas. Wilson et al. v. Lane, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections. Laws, by and Through Laws, as his Next Friend v. Delo, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center.

Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; C. A. 7th Cir.; C. A. 8th Cir.; and Magwood v. Alabama. Sup. Ct. Ala. 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 sentences in these cases.

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