488 U.S. 989
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 12, 1988
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1988-12-12
Cited by 3 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 1994
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1988-12-12
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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.