501 U.S. 1213
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 10, 1991
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1991-06-10
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia
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Decided 1991-06-10
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Skillern v. State (1995), Powell v. State (1994)
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
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¶1dissenting.
¶2Adhering to my view 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, 231 (1976), I would grant the application for stay of execution and the petition for writ of certiorari and would vacate the death sentence in this case.