DAVIS
v.
TEXAS; BALDREE V. TEXAS; BOGGS V. BAIR, WARDEN, ET AL.; THOMPSON V. FLORIDA; BECK V. ZANT, WARDEN; PARKUS V. MISSOURI; PRUETT V. THOMPSON, WARDEN

U.S. | 1990-05-14
Nos. 89-6486; No. 89-6916; No. 89-6926; No. 89-7037; No. 89-7059; No. 89-7085; No. 89-7214
495 U.S. 940 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 sentences in these cases.

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    …ntial mitigating evidence presented in this case does not provide a reasonable basis for the jury’s recommendation. Cf. Thompson v. State, 553 So. 2d 153 (Fla.1989) (defendant killed friend who stole money from him, five ag-gravators), cert. denied, 495 U.S. 940, 110 S.Ct. 2194, 109 L.Ed.2d 521 (1990); Bolender v. State, 422 So. 2d 833, 837 (Fla.1982) (defendants killed four drug dealers, whose livelihood did “not justify a night of robbery, torture, kidnapping, and murder”), cert. denied, 461 U.S. 939, 103…
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