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Johnson v. Lynaugh

483 U.S. 1013 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1987-06-23 Docket No. A-944 English

Judges Justice O’Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of this application.

Decision Majority (1) · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 1013
No. A-944.
Johnson v. Lynaugh, 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 O’Connor took no part in the consideration or decision of this 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 of execution 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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