ROMERO
v.
COLLINS, DIRECTOR, TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION

U.S. | 1990-02-26
No. 89-6390
494 U.S. 1012 Supreme Court of the United States (1990) Positive Treatment
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Dissent
Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

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 certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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