Jones v. Whitley

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided July 21, 1991

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1991-07-21

Relies on Gregg v. Georgia

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Decided 1991-07-21

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Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably Collins & Aikman Products Co. v. Building Systems, Inc. (1995), Smith/Enron Cogeneration Ltd. Partnership, Inc. v. Smith Cogeneration International, Inc. (1999)

28 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions

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¶1C. A. 5th Cir. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Scalia, and by him referred to the Court, denied. Certiorari denied. Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens would grant the application.

Justice Marshall,

¶2dissenting.

¶3Adhering 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.