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Palmes v. Wainwright

469 U.S. 1001 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1984-11-07 Docket No. A-360 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1001
November 7, 1984
No. A-360.
Palmes v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections.

Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Powell, and by him referred to the Court, denied.

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 and a petition for writ of certiorari and would vacate the death sentence in this case.

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