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Adams v. Wainwright

475 U.S. 1041 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1986-02-28 Docket No. A-653 English

Judges Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens would grant the application for stay.

Decision Majority (1) · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1041
February 28, 1986
No. A-653.
Adams v. Wainwright, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al.

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

Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens would grant the application for stay.

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 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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