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Derrick v. Collins

497 U.S. 1042 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1990-07-17 Docket No. A-43 English

Judges Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens would grant the application.

Decision Majority (1) · Dissent — Brennan J.

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July 17, 1990
No. A-43.
Derrick v. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division.

Application for stay of execution of sentence of death and certificate of probable cause, presented to Justice White, and by him referred to the Court, denied.

Justice Blackmun and Justice Stevens would grant the application.

dissenting.

Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth

Dissent — Brennan J.

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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.

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