BELYEU
v.
TEXAS; JOUBERT V. NEBRASKA; ORNDORFF ET AL. V. LOCKHART, DIRECTOR, ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION; HENRY V. PENNSYLVANIA; BEAN V. ILLINOIS; VAN POYCK V. FLORIDA; SWEET V. MISSOURI; GATES V. WARDEN AT SAN QUENTIN
BELYEU
TEXAS; JOUBERT V. NEBRASKA; ORNDORFF ET AL. V. LOCKHART, DIRECTOR, ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION; HENRY V. PENNSYLVANIA; BEAN V. ILLINOIS; VAN POYCK V. FLORIDA; SWEET V. MISSOURI; GATES V. WARDEN AT SAN QUENTIN
499 U.S. 931
Supreme Court of the United States (1991)
Opinion of the Court
Sup. Ct. Ill.;
Sup. Ct. Fla.;
Sup. Ct. Mo.;
C. A. 9th Cir.; and
Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 90-6086, 791 S. W. 2d 66; No. 90-6101, 235 Neb. 230, 455 N. W. 2d 117; No. 90-6291, 906 F. 2d 1230; No. 90-6325, 524 Pa. 135, 569 A. 2d 929; No. 90-6541, 137 Ill. 2d 65, 560 N. E. 2d 258; No. 90-6816, 564 So. 2d 1066; No. 90-6818, 796 S. W. 2d 607; No. 90-6855, 795 S. W. 2d 743.
Justice Marshall,
dissenting.
Adhering to my view 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, 231 (1976), I would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.
Cases With Similar Vibessemantic neighbors from the corpus
Citator
Authorities Cited
- Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (U.S. 1976)
- van Poyck v. State, 564 So. 2d 1066 (Fla. 1990)
- Orndorff v. A.L. Lockhart, 906 F.2d 1230 (8th Cir. 1990)