108 S. Ct. 13
Decided August 27, 1987
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 1999 · most notably 538 So. 2d 329 - Pinkney v. State (1988), Clemons v. State (1988)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1987-08-27
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¶1dissenting.
¶2Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth *1050and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant the application for stay of execution and the petition for writ of certiorari and would vacate the death sentence in this case.