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489 U.S. 1093

109 S. Ct. 1563

103 L. Ed. 2d 930

Docket No. 88-6863 (A-759).

King v. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

Supreme Court of the United States

March 21, 1989

Supreme Court of the United States · decided March 21, 1989

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Bauer v. Waldschmidt

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Decided March 21, 1989

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Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2014

6 federal appellate · 12 state decisions

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The application for stay of execution of sentence of death presented to Justice White and by him referred to the Court is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is denied.

Justice BRENNAN and Justice MARSHALL, dissenting:

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Adhering 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, 96 S.Ct. 2909, 2950, 2973, 49 L.Ed.2d 859 (1976), we would grant the application for stay of execution and the petition for a writ of certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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