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Wicker v. McCotter

478 U.S. 1033 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1986-08-25 Docket No. A-140 English

Judges Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens would grant the application.

Decision Majority (1) · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1033
August 25, 1986
No. A-140.
Wicker 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.

Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens would grant the application.

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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