SMITH
v.
TEXAS
SMITH
TEXAS
478 U.S. 1032
Supreme Court of the United States (1986)
Positive Treatment
Cited by 2 cases
Dissent
Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,
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 the application for stay in order to give the applicant time to file a petition for writ of certiorari, and would grant the petition and vacate the death sentence in this case.
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Authorities Cited
- Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (U.S. 1976)