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Stokes v. Delo

495 U.S. 926 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1990-05-11 Docket No. A-798 English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Brennan J.

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p. 926
May 11, 1990
No. A-798.
Stokes v. Delo, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center.

Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Blackmun, 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 and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153 , 227, 231 (1976), we would grant the application for stay of execution.

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