Adams v. Wainwright

Mar 31, 1986
No. 85-6476 (A-664)
Versions:475 U.S. 1104
106 S. Ct. 1506
89 L. Ed. 2d 907
54 U.S.L.W. 3648
1986 U.S. LEXIS 1073

Lead Opinion

Sup. Ct. Fla. Application for stay of execution of sentence of death, presented to Justice Powell, and by him referred to the Court, denied. Certiorari denied.





Dissenting Opinion

Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

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 and the petition for writ of certiorari and would vacate the death sentence in this case.