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475 U.S. 1133

Funchess v. Wainwright

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 22, 1986

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1986-04-22

Cited by 16 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1996

8 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia

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Decided 1986-04-22

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¶1C. A. 11th Cir. The order heretofore entered staying execution of sentence of death until 5:00 p.m., April 22, 1986, is vacated. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Powell, and by him referred to the Court, denied. Certiorari denied.

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

¶2dissenting.

¶3Adhering 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 the application for stay and the petition for writ of certiorari and would vacate the death sentence in this case.

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