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Supreme Court of the United States, 1977

Woodkins v. Texas

Woodkins v. Texas
Supreme Court of the United States · Decided June 6, 1977 · Brennan, Marshall
431 U.S. 960; 97 S. Ct. 2688 (United States Reports)

Woodkins v. Texas

Opinion of the Court

Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied.

Mr. Justice Brennan and Mr. 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 vacate the death sentence in this case.

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