Majority
p. 1165June 8, 1986 No. A-950. Esquivel v. McCotter, Director, Texas Department of Corrections.
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 in order
Dissent — Brennan J.
p. 1166
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.
Cases cited
- Gregg v. Georgia 428 U. S. 153 at 231 p. 1165