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492 U.S. 939

Paster v. Lynaugh

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided September 13, 1989

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1989-09-13

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia

Decided 1989-09-13

¶1C. A. 5th Cir. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice White, and by him referred to the Court, denied.

Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens would grant the application.
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.

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