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Palmes v. Wainwright

469 U.S. 976 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1984-10-29 Docket No. 83-6829 (A-308) English

Decision Majority · Dissent — JUSTICE BRENNAN and JUSTICE MARSHALL,

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p. 976
No. 83-6829 (A-308).
Palmes v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections,

ante, p. 873. Applications to suspend the effect of the order denying the petition for writ of certiorari and for stay of execution of sentence of death denied. Petition for rehearing 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 applications and the petition for rehearing, vacate the order denying certiorari, and would grant the petition for writ of certiorari and vacate the death sentence in this case.

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