Smith v. Armontrout

ante, p. 1039. Motion of the Missouri Capital Punishment Resource Center for leave to intervene as next friend and for reconsideration of application for stay of execution 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 motion and 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.