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Andrade v. McCotter

479 U.S. 1022 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1986-12-17 Docket No. A-464 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1022
December 17, 1986
No. A-464.
Andrade v. McCotter, Director, Texas Department of Corrections.

Application for stay of execution

Dissent — Brennan J.

p. 1023
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 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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