Daugherty v. Florida

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided October 9, 1987

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1987-10-09

Cited by 6 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1991

2 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia

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Decided 1987-10-09

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¶1Sup. Ct. Fla. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice O’Connor, and by her 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 of execution and the petition for writ of certiorari and would vacate the death sentence in this case.