Majority
p. 1077No. A-912. Willis v. Zant, Warden.
Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Kennedy, 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
Dissent — Brennan J.
p. 1078
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.
Cases cited
- Gregg v. Georgia 428 U. S. 153 at 231 p. 1078