481 U.S. 1008
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 6, 1987
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1987-04-06
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1987-04-06
Cited by 13 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2015
1 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 and 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.