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Knighton v. Blackburn

469 U.S. 927 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1984-10-29 Docket No. A-342 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — JUSTICE BRENNAN and JUSTICE MARSHALL,

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p. 927
No. A-342.
Knighton v. Blackburn, Warden.

Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to JUSTICE WHITE, 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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