Stokes v. Delo

Decided May 11, 1990

Cited by 11 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2002

4 federal appellate · 3 district ·

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1990-05-11

¶1Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Blackmun, and by him referred to the Court, 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.