479 U.S. 1001
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 3, 1986
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1986-12-03
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1986-12-03
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2017
17 state decisions
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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 *1002and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 158, 227, 281 (1976), we would grant the application for stay in order to give the applicant time to file a petition for writ of certiorari and would grant the petition and vacate the death sentence in this case.