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Daugherty v. Florida

484 U.S. 891 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1987-10-09 Docket No. 87-5359 (A-261) English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 891
No. 87-5359 (A-261).
Daugherty v. Florida.

Sup. Ct. Fla. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice O’Connor, and by her referred to the Court, denied. Certiorari 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 of execution and the petition for writ of certiorari and would vacate the death sentence in this case.

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