Supreme Court of the United States, 1988

Thompson v. Louisiana

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided October 3, 1988 · Brennan, Marshall

488 U.S. 871 (United States Reports)

Opinion of the Court

*871Sup. Ct. La.; Sup. Ct. Tenn.; Sup. Ct. Ala.; Ct. Crim. App. Tenn.; Sup. Ct. Mo.; Sup. Ct. Mo.; C. A. 9th Cir.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Sup. Ct. Ala.; Ct. Crim. App. Tex.; Sup. Ct. Ga.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Ct. App. Mo., Eastern Dist.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Sup. Ct. Ala.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Ct. Crim. App. Ala.; Sup. Ct. Fla.; Sup. Ct. Va.; Sup. Ct. Va.; Sup. Ct. Va.; Sup. Ct. Va.; Sup. Ct. Mo.; Sup. Ct. Cal.; Sup. Ct. Ga.; Ct. App. Ohio, Cuyahoga County; Sup. Ct. 111.; Sup. Ct. Pa.; C. A. 11th Cir.; Sup. Ct. Cal.; Sup. Ct. Cal.; Sup. Ct. Cal.; Sup. Ct. Wash.; *872Sup. Ct. Ind.; Sup. Ct. S. C.; C. A. 11th Cir.; Ct. Crim. App. Okla.; and Sup. Ct. 111. Certiorari denied.

No. 88-5138. No. 88-5147. No. 88-5178. No. 88-5190. No. 88-5194.

Dissenting Opinion

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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