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Richardson v. Thigpen

492 U.S. 934 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1989-08-17 Docket No. 89-5395 (A-142) English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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No. 89-5395 (A-142).
Richardson v. Thigpen, Commissioner, Alabama Department of Corrections.

C. A. 11th Cir. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Kennedy, and by him 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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