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De La Rosa v. Procunier

471 U.S. 1112 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1985-05-14 Docket No. A-859 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1112
May 14, 1985
No. A-859.
De La Rosa v. Procunier, Director, Texas Department of Corrections.

Application for stay of execution of sentence of death scheduled for Wednesday, May 15, 1985, 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

Dissent — Brennan J.

p. 1113
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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