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Bird v. Collins

501 U.S. 1213 Court SCOTUS Decision date 1991-06-10 Docket No. 90-8209 (A-914) English

Decision Majority · Dissent — Marshall J.

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No. 90-8209 (A-914).
Bird v. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division.

C. A. 5th Cir. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Scalia, and by him referred to the Court, denied. Certiorari denied.

dissenting.

Adhering to my view 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 , 231 (1976), I 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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