Johnson v. Lynaugh, 483 U.S. 1013

483 U.S. 1013
107 S. Ct. 3254
97 L. Ed. 2d 753
US-DOC-321579
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483 U.S. 1013
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Johnson v. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections.
Country
United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
p. 1013
No. A-944.
Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice White, and by him referred to the Court, denied. Justice O’Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of this application.
Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall, dissenting.
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 (1976), we would grant the application for stay of execution in order to give the applicant time to file a petition for writ of certiorari and would grant the petition and vacate the death sentence in this case.
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